ISSUE 491 | GitHub's Cloud Migration

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GitHub’s Cloud Migration, TNS on the Road

When the air turns crisp in the Northern Hemisphere, The New Stack’s thoughts turn to travel. It’s fall conference season, and several of us just returned from All Things Open in Raleigh, N.C. You will be seeing what we learned over the next several days. Earlier this month, Frederic Lardinois, our senior editor for AI, stopped by OpenAI’s annual DevDay in San Francisco, bringing back news of the company’s new no-code agent builder. 

But we also bring you plenty of news that doesn’t require us to hop on a plane. Frederic, for instance, offered TNS readers a glimpse into new priorities at GitHub, the version-control system devs around the world depend on. 

The company, acquired in 2018 by Microsoft, saw its CEO Thomas Dohmke step down in August. Since then, Microsoft has folded the formerly independent GitHub more tightly into its organization. Now, that includes a massive-scale infrastructure migration to Azure. 

Frederic quoted an internal GitHub message to the company’s staff by CTO Vladimir Fedorov:  “We have to do this. It’s existential for GitHub to have the ability to scale to meet the demands of AI and Copilot, and Azure is our path forward. We have been incrementally using more Azure capacity in places like Actions, search, edge sites and Proxima, but the time has come to go all-in on this move and finish it.”

The AI boom has shifted priorities at organizations around the world, and tech giants are at the forefront. Keep reading TNS for the latest on how these decisions are being made, and what they mean for you and your team.

— Heather Joslyn, editor-in-chief, TNS

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