GitHub is down for thousands of software developers this morning. The Microsoft-owned service, which provides version control through Git and hosting for software development, has been down for more than an hour. GitHub users have experienced errors when logging into the service, and some are even unable to use their integrated development environment (IDE) due to how closely software development is related to the service.
GitHub says it is investigating the outage and that it “identified the source of the bugs and is working on recovery.”
GitHub is a great code repository that has become very popular with developers and companies that host full projects and code on the service. Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and many other big tech companies use GitHub. There are over 100 million repositories hosted on GitHub, and 40 million developers contribute to them.
Microsoft acquired GitHub for $ 7.5 billion in 2018, and has been gradually improving the developer service. Microsoft slashed the price of the most popular paid levels on GitHub earlier this year, and moved a key feature of all its paid plans to its free option.
