GitHub Doubles Capacity in Four Months — Demand Still Outpaces It

GitHub more than doubled effective capacity in four months, with a 10X plan underway since October 2025. Yet monthly commits — code changes pushed to the platform — surged from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion in the same window, outstripping infrastructure growth. The August 17 outage, lasting over seven hours, traces to that gap.