Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of Ghostty and creator of Vagrant and Terraform, announced plans to migrate his projects from GitHub following two significant outages in April. The first incident on April 23 involved a merge queue error affecting 658 repositories, while the second on April 27 saw an Elasticsearch overload, possibly due to a botnet attack, disrupting search functionalities. Hashimoto, a long-time GitHub user, cited frequent disruptions to his work as the reason for the move, despite the migration plan being in discussion for months. GitHub CTO Vlad Fedorov apologized for the outages, attributing them to a surge in development activity, with monthly peaks reaching 90 million merged PRs and 1.4 billion commits. GitHub is undertaking a 30x scaling initiative to address these challenges, including service isolation and multi-cloud deployment strategies.