Field notes from the edge.
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AIHoly git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure
GitHub has experienced significant service reliability challenges in recent months as AI-driven development workflows have caused traffic to surge from 1 billion commits annually to 1.4 billion monthly. Despite migrating 40% of traffic to Azure infrastructure and doubling capacity in four months, the platform continues to face availability issues, with unofficial tracking showing uptime as low as
AIVoidZero is joining Cloudflare
Cloudflare has acquired VoidZero, the company behind popular JavaScript tooling including Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, and Oxc, with all team members joining Cloudflare. The company emphasizes that all VoidZero projects will remain open source, vendor-agnostic, and community-driven, with Cloudflare committing $1 million to a Vite ecosystem fund. The acquisition reflects Vite's growing importance as fou
