GoKawiilgithub and the crime against software
A software article by Efron Licht
May 2026
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Introduction
As I begin this article, Github is down, again. While there have been plenty of articles talking about github’s struggles with reliability, security, and performance like this one by the verge, they are only scratching the surface. Github serves as a sort of ‘signal’ of infrastructural decay within both Github and the world of big tech software services in general. While I could point to similar decay in nearly every big tech corporate service, from AWS to Google Search, Github serves as a striking example due to being nearly syonymous with software development. I remember a conversation with a recruiter in 2022 where they simply did not believe that I was a ‘real programmer’ because I didn’t have a github account.
What github is supposed to be - a high-performance, high-availability, high-capacity distributed system - is my personal professional specialty, so I can bring a little more insight into the problem than your average tech reporter.
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