GitHub scaling under AI coding traffic

Category: Infrastructure
Status: developing
Sources: The Register
Summary: Covered in Top stories. Reported figures include nine May 2026 incidents, about 275 million commits per week, roughly 40 percent of monolith traffic on Azure by May with a target near 50 percent by July, and reported AWS capacity for overflow. No single GitHub or Microsoft primary statement consolidates the numbers.
Why it matters: The scaling response, including a multi-cloud approach, sets precedent for how a major code-hosting platform absorbs agent-driven load.