GitHub’s August 17 outage postmortem wasn’t supposed to be a bombshell. It read like a standard incident report — capacity failure in Central US, seven-hour-forty-seven-minute recovery, lots of infrastructure remediation. Then you hit the growth metrics. Monthly commits on GitHub went from 1.4 billion in April to 2.9 billion in August. Not over a year. In four months. That number didn’t come from a product announcement. It came from GitHub’s outage postmortem, which is exactly the kind of place you find numbers that haven’t been spun yet. This Is What Machine-Speed Code Generation Looks Like For context: GitHub processed roughly […]
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