As I mentioned before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333107), they can mitigate these issues with limits,

As I mentioned before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333107), they can mitigate these issues with limits, even for failure cascades. There should've been an all-hands-on-deck feature freeze 6 months ago to implement the limits needed. That clearly didn't happen. I think it's because their leadership actually doesn't care that it goes down. A weekly outage is now an accepted cost of continuing to allow unlimited free access with infrastructure that cannot possibly handle the load. As a result, everyone is looking at their GitHub Enterprise bills and cost of stopped work, calculating how much they'd save by self-hosting.