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GitHub adding four million cores to keep its service online
Original: GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocal
GitHub is adding around four million extra computing cores and re-architecting parts of its platform after surging automated traffic, much of it driven by AI agents and crawlers, pushed its infrastructure close to breaking point. The changes aim to keep code hosting and developer tools reliable as AI-generated load keeps growing across the web.
Why now: It highlights the strain AI-generated traffic is placing on core developer infrastructure.
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