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It still couldn’t keep up with your commits. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GitHub added 3 million CPU cores. It still couldn’t keep up with your commits. **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GitHub disclosed that it now handles 2.9 billion commits, 130 million merged pull requests, and 24 million new repos per month, up from 1.4 billion commits in April, driven largely by AI coding agents. A postmortem of the August 17 outage, which lasted nearly eight hours, revealed that a critical infrastructure component in GitHub's Central US data center failed to scale under peak traffic, triggering authentication failures and cascading service disruptions. CTO Vlad Fedorov revealed GitHub added 3 million CPU cores and 120 petabytes of storage this year, with 58% of platform load now served by Azure (up from 12% in May), while its own data centers are now maxed out on available power. GitHub is applying retry limits, timeout tweaks, and isolating critical systems to prevent future cascading failures. The outages have opened the door for competitors like Entire (founded by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke) and Cursor's Origin. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What caused the GitHub outage on August 17? A critical infrastructure component in GitHub's Central US data center failed to scale when traffic hit a new peak, and the resulting capacity pressure spread through GitHub's systems, causing authentication failures and disrupting multiple services. The outage lasted almost eight hours and was GitHub's second major outage that month, according to CTO Vlad Fedorov's postmortem. _Engineers tracking large-scale reliability incidents can follow postmortems like this one on daily.dev._ ### How much of GitHub's traffic now runs on Azure instead of its own data centers? 58% of GitHub's platform load is now served by Azure, up sharply from just 12% in May, and half of all Git operations run on Azure too. GitHub's own data centers are maxed out on available power despite adding 3 million CPU cores and 120 petabytes of high-speed storage this year. _daily.dev helps engineers stay current on cloud migration shifts like GitHub's move to Azure._ ### How many commits does GitHub process per month now compared to earlier this year? GitHub now processes 2.9 billion commits per month, along with 130 million merged pull requests and 24 million new repositories. That's roughly double the 1.4 billion monthly commits GitHub was handling back in April, a surge largely attributed to the growing use of AI coding agents. _Track how AI coding agents are reshaping developer infrastructure demands on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How GitHub plans to win developers back](https://daily.dev/posts/how-github-plans-to-win-developers-back-9hvijs2gi) · The New Stack · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [GitHub availability report: June 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/github-availability-report-june-2026-yjcjq42au) · GitHub Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#azure](https://daily.dev/tags/azure) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/github-added-3-million-cpu-cores-it-still-couldn-t-keep-up-with-your-commits--f1n86ryvr) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"GitHub added 3 million CPU cores. 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