GitHub's Uptime Woes Spark Fresh Migration Talk
A recent blog post making the rounds on Hacker News argues that GitHub's growing list of outages and degraded-service incidents is becoming a real operational risk, not just an inconvenience. The author points to repeated disruptions affecting Actions, pull requests, and API access, arguing that teams leaning entirely on GitHub for CI/CD, hosting, and collaboration are exposed every time the platform hiccups.
The piece doesn't call for abandoning GitHub outright, but suggests engineering teams treat it like any other single point of failure: mirror critical repos, keep CI portable across providers, and have a documented fallback plan. Commenters on HN were split, with some noting GitLab, Bitbucket, and self-hosted Git servers as viable options, while others argued GitHub's reliability is still better than most alternatives despite the visible incidents.