GitHub is seeing unprecedented demand and is updating its core infrastructure to keep pace. In August, GitHub said it was seeing 2.9 billion commits per month , up from 1.4 billion in April. At its GitHub Universe conference on Wednesday, the company announced that it is now seeing 7.4 billion commits per month. To put that into perspective, developers pushed 65 million monthly commits to the platform in 2024. That kind of growth is a great problem to have, but the company’s outages have become something of a recurring theme. The reason is rapid usage growth, driven mostly by “agentic...

Source: The New Stack