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by amarant 69 days ago
GitHub outages are most likely entirely unrelated to anything AI, and 100% caused by their move from on-prem hosting to Azure.

They have a very unusual workload in that they need to write to disk a lot more than what is typical, making them harder to host for a generic cloud provider. And also Azure sucks so bad it's almost impressive GitHub has any uptime at all!