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GitHub is crashing due to scaling pressure. Something GH is much more equipped to solve long term.
by chris_money202 1mo ago
GitHub is crashing due to scaling pressure. Something GH is much more equipped to solve long term.
- logicchains 1mo agoThey're really not, given they're running on Azure.
- mlnj 1mo agoIs there any data on Azure being terrible with stability? Would love to see data than anecdotal stories.
- gtirloni 1mo agoThere isn't and if there is it probably doesn't matter in GH's case. People are just speculating with zero knowledge. I'd never put my data on anything owned by Musk. Period. I'd take lower availability from GitHub or a worse alternative (feature-wise) than move Origin.
- mlnj 1mo agoI'm with you on that. I was just curious about Azure reliability stats.
- 0xy 1mo agoThey're actually ramping back up on AWS after Azure failed to scale to their needs. They planned to be fully off AWS in 2027 but they're continuing to ramp usage. Azure doesn't scale.
- theplatman 1mo agoare they? given this has been happening frequently over past year and there's been minimal clear communication on their end on how they plan to address this
- chris_money202 1mo agoAzure is at capacity; GH offers a lot of services for free or heavily discounted. Especially when its public repo. These aren't profit generating for Microsoft, so they are not the priority with the capacity Azure has available. GH is probably struggling with these capacity and budget constraints. They also still have some AWS and non-azure DCs in use. Once Azure's massive spend is online things will slowly get better.
- mrheosuper 1mo ago>These aren't profit generating for Microsoft Aren't they are training their LLM on public repo, to me it's seem like a gold mine.
- chris_money202 1mo agoAnyone can train LLMs on public GitHub repos
- esafak 1mo agoHow long term are we talking here? Github was acquired in 2018...
- chris_money202 1mo agoI think GH/Microsoft got caught by surprise to the huge usage number increase as a result of LLMs. Microsoft started rolling all of its DCs to OpenAI around 2019-2020 to begin LLM training, then we saw a huge GH increase in late 2024 and Azure was just out of capacity for infinite GH scale.
- esafak 1mo agoI guess we should all do our part to alleviate poor Microsoft's burden by migrating to better services.