GitHub Outage Disrupts Developers Amid AI-Driven Coding Surge
GitHub, the Microsoft-owned code-sharing platform used by 225 million developers worldwide, was hit by a widespread outage on Monday morning. The issue started at 6:40 a.m. Pacific and lasted for over three hours, disrupting software development work globally.
The outage affected nearly every part of the service, including the GitHub website, tools for reviewing and merging code, automated systems that test and ship software, and the AI-powered coding assistant, Copilot. The problem was identified shortly after 9:30 a.m., and by 10 a.m., services were recovering.
Although the outage is resolved, with services fully restored at 2:15 p.m., GitHub is still monitoring for stability issues. This incident marks another setback for Microsoft's coding platform, which has been struggling to cope with the surge in AI-driven coding demands. In April, GitHub CTO Vladimir Fedorov acknowledged that the company needed to expand its capacity tenfold and build for 30 times its current scale.