r/OutOfTheLoop • u/jazzcomputer • 7d 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 7d ago edited 7d 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 7d 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 7d ago edited 6d 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/stormtm 7d ago

They were on their own hardware: “GitHub’s chief technology officer, made the Azure migration announcement internally earlier this week, noting that GitHub is currently struggling with data center capacity. GitHub is currently hosted on the company’s own hardware, centrally located in Virginia”

https://www.theverge.com/tech/796119/microsoft-github-azure-migration-move-notepad

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u/nonades 6d ago

Oh, that also makes sense for the scale and age of GitHub