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LorenDByesterday at 5:09 PM3 repliesview on HN

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.


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eddygtoday at 11:23 AM

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

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jplegeryesterday at 11:39 PM

I wonder if there is any correlation between them moving towards Azure.

https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

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Ygg2yesterday at 9:20 PM

I see Microsoft mandated AI is doing wonders. For self hosters and Linux enthusiasts.