I’m surprised it’s even as high as three nines, at one point in 2025 it was below 90%; not even a single nine.[0] (which, to be fair includes co-pilot, which is the worst of availabilities).

People on lobsters a month ago were congratulating Github on achieving a single nine of uptime.[1]

I make jokes about putting all our eggs in one basket under the guise of “nobody got fired for buying x; but there are sure a lot of unemployed people”- but I think there’s an insidious conversation that always used to erupt:

“Hey, take it easy on them, it’s super hard to do ops at this scale”.

Which lands hard on my ears when the normal argument in favour of centralising everything is that “you can’t hope to run things as good as they do, since there’s economies of scale”.

These two things can’t be true simultaneously.. this is the evidence.

[0]: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

[1]: https://lobste.rs/s/00edzp/missing_github_status_page#c_3cxe...