Executive Summary

• GitHub is working on a path to multi-cloud to improve availability
• Users are experiencing dire uptime issues over the last 12 months
• GitHub released data on new repo/issues/commits, showing exponential growth

The Buzz Score

The Internet’s Verdict: 60% Concerned, 40% Hopeful

Forum Voices

Some users are questioning Microsoft’s ability to get acceptable reliability from Azure, as one user stated:

> we started working on path to multi cloud. Is this microsoft stating that they aren’t able to get acceptable reliability from Azure?

Others are frustrated with the lack of acknowledgement of the uptime issues:

It’s kind of hard to read this with a straight face. The unlabelled graph with big numbers on top, the priorities that don’t match with what we’re experiencing, and a list of things that they’re doing without a real acknowledgement of the _dire_ uptime over the last 12 months….

Federated Forges

A founder of tangled.org suggested that the future should be federated forges, with sovereign infra and global identity, to improve availability.

I’m biased (founder of tangled.org), but the future really should be federated forges. Host repositories on sovereign infra with global identity + federated ‘metadata’ (issues, pulls, etc.). Global indices for this should be trivial to spin up so availability is never a concern (we’re working towards this!).

Focus Keyword: GitHub Availability