Are you kidding? That's an insane amount of load increase to manage. "Scalability" isn't one thing, especially not at that level, so it's ridiculous to knock them for it. That amount of load ripples across your entire infrastructure.

They have the backing of a trillion dollar corporation and can literally hire some of the best talent on the planet. People nor budgets are an issue here.

Why do we keep giving excuses to poor engineering disciplines + poor management? This problem is entirely GitHub's making and acting like it's some unplanned natural disaster is low key pathetic.