By Thomas Claburn
Publication Date: 2026-06-12 20:12:00
Software
GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized
GitHub has been struggling with service availability in recent months as traffic on the platform has surged, driven in large part by AI-assisted coding and agentic development workflows. The code-sharing site has been trying to address those issues by expanding capacity and migrating more workloads to Azure infrastructure, but reliability remains uneven.
In the May 2026 GitHub Availability Report, GitHub acknowledges nine incidents that degraded performance, one fewer than its April report.
That’s something. But Jakub Oleksy, SVP of software engineering at GitHub, says there’s more to be done.
“We are making structural changes that permanently remove failure modes,” he said in the report. “We acknowledge that we have work to do, but we’re committed to getting it done and making GitHub reliable when and where you need it.”
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