ToplineGitHub, the widely used development platform for coding, says it is showing “strong signs of recovery” after rolling out a fix for the status issues that caused outages throughout the morning, although it says it is still working to fully restore service. Thousands of users reported a GitHub outage on Monday. (Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images)Getty ImagesKey Facts In the latest GitHub update, posted at 12:36 p.m. EDT, the company says it has “identified the problematic component” and taken corrective action, although the status of the platform has not yet fully recovered. Outage reports on DownDetector have steadily decreased from a peak of nearly 3,000 reports earlier this morning, with only a few hundred problem reports around 12:45 p.m.EDT. In previous updates, GitHub said it was experiencing “high error rates” of about 20% for web traffic, while file and content downloads experienced an error rate of about 50%. GitHub first said it was “investigating reports of impacted performance” at 9:40 a.m. EDT. acknowledging that many platform features were “experiencing degraded performance.” Forbes approached GitHub for comment.tangentSome other products owned by Microsoft, which also owns GitHub, appeared to experience minor outages on Monday morning, according to reports from DownDetector. Hundreds of users reported problems with Copilot, Microsoft’s artificial intelligence tool, and reports spiked around 11:30 a.m. EDT. Microsoft Teams also received hundreds of problem reports on DownDetector on Monday morning. big number 180 million. That’s the number of users or developers that GitHub claims to serve. The company has said in recent months that its growth has been rapid amid an AI coding craze. “June was by far the best month in our history,” the company’s chief technology officer, Vladimir Fedorov, told employees earlier this summer. In a blog post in April, Fedorov said the company began working on a plan in October to expand its capacity tenfold, but in February it became clear that the platform needed to increase capacity 30fold. “The main driver is a rapid change in the way software is built,” Fedorov wrote, citing AI-powered workflows. further reading An update on GitHub availability (GitHub)
