GitHub's Git Operations service has faced repeated scaling pressures from explosive platform growth, with monthly Git events more than doubling year-over-year and AI agents driving billions of additional commits and Actions runs. A major August 17 outage lasting nearly eight hours exposed auto-scaling limits in core infrastructure, while October 7 saw multiple resolved incidents degrading Git Operations alongside Issues, Pull Requests, and Actions, plus a concurrent GhostAction campaign compromising hundreds of accounts to steal credentials via malicious workflows. Traders weigh these patterns against GitHub's ongoing rebuild of its Git backend—decoupling storage onto Azure Blob for up to 35x write throughput—and mitigations applied after each event. Key upcoming catalysts include any further October incidents that the status page explicitly tags as critical before month-end resolution.