https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ says they are down to 88.15% uptime. Even when you consider uptime of individual components, their best is 99.78%, so two nines.
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ says they are down to 88.15% uptime. Even when you consider uptime of individual components, their best is 99.78%, so two nines.
The scale of growth they’re dealing with is insane.
“There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.”
Source: GitHub COO on April 3, 2026. https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878
That really does put it in perspective. Wow.
What's causing that growth? AI bots spamming commits?
I wonder if there is any correlation between them moving towards Azure.
https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...
They are dealing with vastly more activity as a result of AI usage. It's that simple.
They’re pushing out AI slop as production services
I see Microsoft mandated AI is doing wonders. For self hosters and Linux enthusiasts.