AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?
GitHub has faced significant reliability issues recently, with its uptime dropping to alarming levels. A data integrity incident last month resulted in the loss of commits for over 2,000 pull requests, leaving affected customers to recover their work manually. Additionally, ongoing outages and a critical security vulnerability have led some users, including prominent developers, to abandon the platform in frustration.
- ▪GitHub's reliability fell to 86% this month, with a major data integrity incident affecting over 2,000 pull requests.
- ▪Customers had to manually recover lost commits due to a bug introduced by GitHub during a squash merge process.
- ▪A critical security issue was disclosed, allowing unauthorized access to repositories, which GitHub fixed within six hours.
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The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors? Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from last week’s The Pulse issue. Full subscribers received the article below seven days ago. If you’ve been forwarded this email, you can subscribe here.GitHub’s reliability has been beyond unacceptable recently: last month, third party measurements pinned it at one nine (right at 90%).
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