--- title: "How GitHub plans to win developers back" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-github-plans-to-win-developers-back-9hvijs2gi source_url: https://thenewstack.io/github-wants-developers-back type: article source: "The New Stack" published: 2026-06-02T18:03:44.133Z updated: 2026-06-02T18:04:07.867Z tags: ["github", "azure", "github-actions", "ai-coding"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: 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. # How GitHub plans to win developers back **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [What’s gone wrong at GitHub?](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-gone-wrong-at-github--5f7pmzqel) · LeadDev · 211 upvotes · 19 comments --- Tags: [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#azure](https://daily.dev/tags/azure), [#github-actions](https://daily.dev/tags/github-actions), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-github-plans-to-win-developers-back-9hvijs2gi)