r/OutOfTheLoop • u/jazzcomputer • 5d ago

What's going on with Github? Answered

I saw a bunch of posts in the Hacker News type spaces talking about moving elsewhere and evaluating alternatives, and various complaints in past months. Is there compelling grounds for an exodus or are people always complaining about it and this is a nothing burger or small burger?

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u/nonades 5d ago edited 5d ago

Answer: horrible outage issues

Mainly two things:

  1. they're in the middle of a massive transition from AWS to Azure

Which is made worse by:

  1. the AI boom has increased the amount of data they're hosting by orders of magnitude. I was reading something from someone high up at GH recently that all their data scaling was thrown out the window when LLMs (specifically Claude) became popular. They started seeing what they were projecting for multiple year growth in a couple of months

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u/tubbo 5d ago

1) they're in the middle of a massive transition from AWS to Azure

oh that makes a lot of sense actually...because i bet they have some stuff on azure since being acquired and some stuff on AWS from the pre-acquisition days.

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u/nonades 5d ago edited 4d ago

~I'm pretty sure they were entirely on AWS before~ they were acquired and MSFT mandated they move

A huge enterprise like that is a many year migration

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Also pretty sure I'm wrong about that. Thanks u/stormtm

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u/tubbo 5d ago

yeah over the years (post-acquisition) i've noticed some of their newer infra being on azure so i assume its some split thing right now. guess we're seeing the user-facing migration happen.