[skywhopper]

GitHub’s data architecture (lots and lots of projects in a hierarchical distribution with immutable, highly transaction-based data elements) ought to be easily shardable to allow for massive scale-out. Especially a decade after acquisition by Microsoft. Even a major increase in activity (which was surely predicted internally years ago, given the marketing around AI) should be easily handled by a company with their resources. These repeated failures are indicative of massive mismanagement and misinvestment.

[chris_money202]

Microsoft has been letting GitHub operate independently since up to very recently. Seems to imply the problems could be systemically GitHub’s and Microsoft is now stepping in and correcting the ship.