How GitHub plans to win developers back
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GitHub has been struggling with frequent outages over the past year due to explosive growth driven by agentic coding. The platform now processes 1.4 billion commits per month (up from 1 billion in all of 2025), with AI agents alone generating 17 million pull requests monthly. GitHub COO Kyle Daigle explains the company's response: migrating to Azure, rewriting job dispatch for GitHub Actions, moving performance-sensitive code from Ruby to Go, reducing MySQL load, and isolating critical services. The goal is to scale the system to handle 30x current load. New features like the Copilot CLI app continue shipping because they operate outside the core infrastructure under repair.
