GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft

When Microsoft announced it was acquiring Git Hub in a $7.5 billion deal in 2018, developers were nervous. Some were concerned about Microsoft controlling Git Hub, and others were taking a wait-and-see approach. Nearly eight years later, Git Hub is now fighting for its survival, amid a surge of outages, security issues, and pressure from competitors. In the last few weeks alone, Git Hub had multiple major outages, a remote code execution vulnerability disclosure, and its internal code repositories hacked due to a "poisoned" VS Code extension on an employee's device. I've spoken to current and former GitHub employees who all paint a picture of a … Read the full story at The Verge.