🔗 AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?

GitHub’s recent outage is attributed to a staggering 3.5x increase in service load, according to their CTO. With reliability dropping to as low as 86%, many users are frustrated. A significant data integrity incident saw over 2,000 pull requests compromised, leaving companies like Modal to manually recover lost commits. High-profile users, including Mitchell Hashimoto, have expressed their dissatisfaction, citing an inability to work efficiently due to daily outages. GitHub is currently migrating to Azure amidst these challenges, but questions arise about their preparedness for AI-driven load increases that competitors like Google anticipate. The article critiques GitHub's failure to adapt quickly enough, caught in a web of technical and organizational debt, while other vendors may not face the same hurdles.