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Is GitHub scaling by orders of magnitude though? That would be an insane increase at this stage of their lifecycle.
by HWR_14 6mo ago
Is GitHub scaling by orders of magnitude though? That would be an insane increase at this stage of their lifecycle.
- ambicapter 6mo agoIf they're suffering the onslaught of ai slop, it's possible.
- jodrellblank 6mo agoThey say it is at least one order of magnitude[1]; "our plan to increase GitHub’s capacity by 10X in October 2025 .. By February 2026, it was clear that we needed to design for a future that requires 30X today’s scale." [1] https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/ https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...
- ori_b 6mo agoNote the lack of concrete numbers on how much they have scaled. Somebody may have just asked an LLM for projections.
- Barbing 6mo agoWould Microsoft lawyers OK that? GitHub would have obligations to MS investors to make accurate projections just like Microsoft itself, right?
- HWR_14 6mo agoI don't think it's an issue here. If the investor relations people put it out, it would be. But in this case it is closer to marketing.
- codechicago277 6mo agohttps://gitcharts.com https://gitcharts.com shows ~310 million public repos today, vs. 250 million in April 2025 (according to the wayback machine). Large increase, but nothing existential.
- nicoburns 6mo agoI wouldn't be surprised. Have you not noticed the sheer volume of slop being posted everywhere these days? Almost all of that is hosted on Github. And some of those repos have insane commit frequencies.