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Is GitHub Down? Here’s What To Know
Forbes • • business
Key Points:
- GitHub is showing strong signs of recovery after fixing status issues that caused outages throughout Monday morning, though full service restoration is still in progress.
- Several Microsoft-owned products, including Copilot and Microsoft Teams, experienced minor outages on Monday, with hundreds of users reporting issues on DownDetector.
- GitHub serves 180 million developers and has seen rapid growth driven by AI coding trends, prompting plans to increase platform capacity significantly to meet demand.
- The company’s CTO, Vladimir Fedorov, highlighted that AI-driven workflows are rapidly changing software development, necessitating a 30-fold increase in capacity since last October.
