When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal in 2018, developers were nervous. Some were concerned about Microsoft controlling GitHub, and others were taking a wait-and-see approach. Nearly eight years later, GitHub is now fighting for its survival, amid a surge of outages...
When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal in 2018, developers were nervous. Some were concerned about Microsoft controlling GitHub, and others were taking a wait-and-see approach. Nearly eight years later, GitHub is now fighting for its survival, amid a surge of outages, security issues, and pressure from competitors.
In the last few weeks alone, GitHub had multiple major outages, a remote code execution vulnerability disclosure, and its internal code repositories hacked due to a "poisoned" VS Code extension on an employee's device. I've spoken to current and former GitHub employees who all paint a picture of a …
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