GitHub Goes Down Again, and Millions of Developers Have Nowhere Else to Go

GitHub is experiencing frequent and severe outages affecting key development services, including CI/CD pipelines and AI-assisted coding tools like Copilot. The platform's dominance in version control hosting creates a high concentration risk for millions of developers, while alternatives exist but have low adoption due to smaller ecosystems and higher operational overhead.

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