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GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability
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GitHub is currently experiencing significant availability issues, with outages affecting Actions, pull requests, notifications, and Copilot. The platform has reported problems with "some GitHub services" as of February 9.
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- Praise: The migration to Azure was intended to enhance GitHub's reliability and speed, which are crucial for developer trust and platform performance.
- Concern: The transition to Azure has reportedly not gone smoothly, raising concerns about GitHub's operational stability and the effectiveness of Microsoft's support.
- Concern: There is skepticism about GitHub's infrastructure, with suggestions that they may still be relying on outdated systems like a single MySQL machine.