It also coincides with GitHub moving to exclusively Azure infrastructure. Azure is a terrible shit show for reasons that have nothing to do with AI.
Also, the uptick in odd issues post acquisition pales in comparison to the scaling issues they've had over the past 1-2 years. As a matter of scale, trying to link this back to Azure doesn't really square. If anything they'd potentially be in a worse spot without having access to the resources of a massive public cloud..
The other issue of trying to quietly move terabytes of information while the site is live hasn't helped either. Add in the challenge of keeping highly customized bare-metal databases in sync with a cloud environment isn't easy.
Its this very very very complex migration that's resulted in a lot of the ongoing issues.
https://hostingjournalist.com/news/microsoft-accelerates-git...
The migration underscores Microsoft’s strategy to unify its AI and developer ecosystems under Azure, bolstering performance and reliability for Copilot and related AI workloads. However, not all GitHub employees are confident in the transition. Internal concerns have surfaced about potential service disruptions, particularly given the complexity of moving GitHub’s massive MySQL clusters, which currently run on custom bare-metal infrastructure.
Outages have become more frequent in recent months, a symptom of GitHub’s growing operational strain. Insiders suggest the platform’s infrastructure - originally designed to handle conventional development workloads - is now being pushed to its limits by large-scale AI integrations and surging user activity.
I'm sure there were, every plan has detractors. Azure has bare metal offerings; does GitHub have access to them? Vladimir Fedorov, GitHub CTO, cited constrained capacity in their data centers and accelerating Azure migration as critical for them to deal with the increased AI load.
IDK, but again as a matter of degree the big issues they are having seem more strongly correlated with agentic coding explosion. In fact it motivated their accelerated migration plans.