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GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down
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Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse.
Key facts
- In the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, Fusion Max scored within two points of Opus 5.5 Max at half the cost and 40% less time per task
- GitHub recorded 7.4 billion code commits in September 2026, five times more than hit its servers a year earlier
- GitHub is making more bells and whistles available through its Copilot app, including Copilot Projects, for coordinating parallel work; Copilot Connectors, for simplifying how Copilot connects to MCP
- The Microsoft-owned code hosting biz also says it is redesigning its technical architecture (an effort discussed previously ) to separate compute and storage, with the expectation that will enable
Summary
GitHub's Universe conference kicked off in San Francisco on Wednesday with news that its infrastructural universe is expanding to address staggering demand from AI agents. GitHub recorded 7.4 billion code commits in September 2026, five times more than hit its servers a year earlier. AI-driven code commits started becoming a problem last December, and led to problems in February, April, August, not to mention the months in between. The Microsoft-owned code hosting biz also says it is redesigning its technical architecture (an effort discussed previously ) to separate compute and storage, with the expectation that will enable 35x more throughput. "We’re also migrating to a multi-region deployment in Azure, while continuing to serve incredible levels of traffic from developers around the world," said Jay Parikh, EVP of CoreAI, Microsoft, provided to The Register.