The next GitHub is not worth winning

On 6 August, GitHub Actions was degraded for nine hours. At peak, 71% of workflow runs failed outright on infrastructure errors, and three quarters of the ones that survived were delayed by more than five minutes. On 11 August, the GraphQL API spent two hours timing out. On 17 August, the whole thing went down worldwide: roughly 20% error rates across the web interface and the API, roughly 50% on archive and raw content downloads, with Actions, Webhooks, Issues, Pull Requests and Copilot all failing together.