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github bolts on four million cores after a year of ai-shaped outages
commits are up fivefold in a year, and github says more hardware alone will not keep it up, so it is rebuilding how git is stored too.
dec 2025
ai-driven commits start to bite
feb
availability problems
apr
github apologises as uptime slips
may
about 84% over 90 days
per a reconstruction of the status page
aug
actions down again
28 oct
4m cores, a new git design
github logged 7.4 billion commits in september, the register reports, five times as many as a year before, and a lot of that is coding agents pushing code nobody typed. the site has wobbled under it all year, with outages in february, april and august. by one reconstruction of github’s own status page, its 90-day availability sank to about 84 percent in may.
at its universe conference on wednesday, github’s jay parikh said the company has added 4 million cpu cores, 160 petabytes of fast storage and 50 terabits a second of network this year, and is moving to a multi-regionrunning a service from several separate data centre regions, so one going down does not take everything with it. setup in azure that should be finished early next year. he also said hardware is not enough. github is redesigning how it runs git around three ideas: simpler building blocks, storage kept apart from compute, and less coordination between machines. the register says github expects that split to give 35 times the throughput.
- 4Mcpu cores addedso far this year, github says
- 160 PBof fast storageplus 50 tb/s of network
- 5xmore commitsseptember against a year earlier, per the register
pick one
a service that is up 84 percent of the time is down for roughly how long in 90 days?
next: the azure migration is due to finish early in 2027. the test is whether the multi-region setup survives the next spike in agent traffic.