alt Hacker NewsAll of the outages make sense to me as scaling issues. Each month, GitHub is getting the amount of commits they’d normally get in a year. And it’s growing
> Yup, platform activity is surging. 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. So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub’s core features. And as a fine purveyor of hand-crafted shit code for many years, I'm not gonna weigh in on that.
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Not really a reasonable excuse considering this is completely broken for self hosted runners / paying customers (for a whole day).
That’s no excuse. Particularly if it affects people self hosting their workers.
These are folks that routinely make it a point to press on system design and scalability during interviews.
Now they suddenly can’t scale or design systems but we should accept that?