The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?

This article from the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter examines GitHub's severe reliability problems, including a data integrity incident where squash merges caused commit loss for over 2,000 pull requests, and subsequent outages where pull requests and issues disappeared from the web UI due to Elasticsearch failures. It discusses the impact on customers like Modal and Zipline, and criticizes GitHub's muted response. The article explores why such failures are unique to GitHub and not other vendors, making it relevant to IT/technology professionals concerned with DevOps tools, software engineering best practices, and platform reliability.