# Why GitHub feels less reliable lately

DevFeed: [Why GitHub feels less reliable lately](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-github-feels-less-reliable-lately-34026.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://sridharrajarao.com/blog/why-github-feels-less-reliable/>)

Author: Sridhar Rajarao

Published: 2026-08-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Sridhar Rajarao](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/sridhar-rajarao.md>)

Topics: [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Azure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/azure.md>), [GitHub Actions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github-actions.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>)

Tags: [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autoscaling.md>), [capacity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/capacity.md>), [concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrency.md>), [data-centers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-centers.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [istio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/istio.md>), [reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reliability.md>), [request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/request.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [sre](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sre.md>), [transformation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transformation.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that GitHub's recent reliability problems reflect the difficult middle of a major infrastructure transformation. It connects incidents to migration complexity, unsafe automation, configuration mistakes, capacity and concurrency weaknesses, database migration errors, and autoscaling problems.

## Source excerpt

GitHub is not having one outage problem. Its recent incident reports show the difficult middle of a platform transformation.