Gergely Orosz on GitHub's Outage: 'Zero Nines' Has Been Their #1 Problem for Six Months and His Bet Is Architecture Decisions From Years Ago
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Orosz's Aug 17 post during the GitHub outage drew 3,279 likes and 405K views: 'Incredible how GitHub's eng team knows reliability (having zero nines) is their #1 problem for ~6 months now and seemingly not being able to get a handle on it. Despite so many solid engineers working on it. My bet: arch decisions years ago bite back v hard now.' He followed up noting GitHub's last CEO went on to build EntireHQ, a service explicitly designed to absorb the agentic load GitHub is struggling with. The outage was reportedly the seventh incident in fifteen consecutive days.