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by duckkg5 110 days ago
I would so very much love to see GitHub switch gears from building stuff like Copilot etc and focus on availability
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The #1 priority at GitHub for this year is migrating from their own data center to Azure, any other work that gets in the way of this is being deprioritized: https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...
> It’s existential for GitHub to have the ability to scale to meet the demands of AI and Copilot, and Azure is our path forward. W

More existential than going down a few times a week?

This is an absurd state they are at! Weekly outages in 2025 and 2026. From developer beloved and very solid to Microslop went faster than I expected
They may have been Beloved before MS bought them. It takes awhile for technical debt to catch up.
Unless a major out(r)age forces a change of leadership, expect more slop down our throats.