GitHub's Reliability Meltdown: When AI Load Meets 18 Years of Tech Debt

The Pulse: AI Load Breaks GitHub — Why Not Other Vendors?

TLDR: GitHub has been running at 85-90% uptime for months — meaning parts of the platform are down for two to three hours every single day. The culprit is AI agent load that grew 3.5x over two years, colliding with 18 years of accumulated technical and organizational debt, all while the company is mid-migration to Azure.

The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?