It was pretty easy before October 2018, when Microsoft bought them:
https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=31
Scaling to human use vs automated/agentic use is a very different thing.
Github has had horrible uptime for years, before agentic use was a thing. The killer was Microsoft.
It had uptime issues before Microsoft. They just got better at tracking and reporting after Microsoft.
Do we know this is the predominant reason?
Not saying they are doing a particular good job but its not as simple as "paying more for bigger machines" and be done with it.
To be fair, that was 8 years ago. Github now has all that days and users + 8 years of data and users.
Scaling to human use vs automated/agentic use is a very different thing.
Github has had horrible uptime for years, before agentic use was a thing. The killer was Microsoft.
It had uptime issues before Microsoft. They just got better at tracking and reporting after Microsoft.
Do we know this is the predominant reason?
Not saying they are doing a particular good job but its not as simple as "paying more for bigger machines" and be done with it.
To be fair, that was 8 years ago. Github now has all that days and users + 8 years of data and users.