GitHub Down Worldwide: What California Tech Workers Need to Know Right Now
GitHub is down. Microsoft has confirmed the popular code-hosting platform is experiencing a worldwide outage, and if you're a developer or startup founder in California trying to push a commit or pull a repo right now, you're not imagining things - the site is just broken.
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The outage is hitting users globally, according to early reports from BleepingComputer and Forbes, with thousands of developers unable to access the platform. For California's massive tech sector - from the Bay Area's startup scene to LA's booming developer community to San Diego's defense-tech firms - that means workflows are stalled and deployments are on hold.
GitHub publishes a live availability report on its official blog, and that page is worth watching as the situation develops. Details on the root cause and an estimated fix time haven't been confirmed yet.
What's Affected
It's a full worldwide outage, not a regional blip. GitHub hosts hundreds of millions of repositories and is the backbone of daily development work for individual coders, enterprise engineering teams, and open-source projects alike. Any California team that relies on GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines, or uses GitHub for version control, is likely feeling the pain right now.
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What To Do
If you're getting error messages or can't load the site, you're not alone - it's not on your end. Check GitHub's status page at githubstatus.com for live updates. Early reports suggest the outage is widespread, so there's no known workaround yet. Teams with local Git mirrors may be able to keep working in the meantime.
What Comes Next
Microsoft, which owns GitHub, has confirmed the outage but hasn't released a timeline for restoration, according to early reports. This is a developing story and details - including the cause and scope - may change. CAL WIRE will update as more information becomes available.