Uptime golf

I’ve been noticing a lot of service outages lately. Some with few enough nines that you’d think they were going for a low score. My guess: this is probably going to get worse before it gets better. But maybe not for the reasons you’d think. First off, let’s look at GitHub. It launched in 2008 and was acquired by Microsoft in late 2018. For most of its life, it was boring infrastructure in the best possible way. More recently it’s been up and down like a yo-yo. The official status page currently lists most services at two nines of uptime over the last 90 days… but counting slightly differently makes it look even worse. Some people have blamed AI for this. Not because everyone at GitHub is vibe coding now (though, that might not be helping things). Instead because Microsoft is prioritizing AI projects over everything else, including at GitHub. GitHub also has had a substantial influx of users as more people are building software with AI and using AI agents. On top of all that, Microsoft…