GitHub Down Worldwide: What California Developers Need to Know Right Now
GitHub is down, and it's been that way for most of the morning. Microsoft has confirmed the outage is worldwide, meaning millions of developers, including the massive concentration of engineers and startups across California's tech hubs, are locked out of one of the most essential tools in the industry right now.
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For Bay Area coders, LA-based startups, and remote workers up and down the state, this isn't a minor inconvenience. GitHub is where teams store code, manage projects, and ship products. When it's down, work stops. According to early reports, the platform has been struggling for hours, not just a quick blip.
Microsoft, which owns GitHub, has confirmed the outage is hitting users globally. GitHub's own availability blog flagged the incident as well. The exact cause hasn't been publicly confirmed yet. This story is developing and details may change.
What's Affected
It's not just one feature acting up. Early reports suggest GitHub has been largely inaccessible for much of the morning. That means repositories, pull requests, Actions, and other core services could all be impacted, though the full scope hasn't been officially detailed yet.
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What to Do Right Now
Check GitHub's official status page for the latest updates as the company works to restore service. Teams may want to pause any deployments or CI/CD pipelines that depend on GitHub until things are confirmed stable. Saving work locally and coordinating via Slack or other tools is a good call until this clears up.
What's Next
No timeline for a fix has been announced yet. CAL WIRE will update this story as new details come in. If you're in California and your workday just got derailed, you're definitely not alone.