At its annual Universe ’26 conference in San Francisco this week, GitHub took to the question of the platform’s stability head-on.

The code-hosting company spent a significant part of the event’s keynote to talk about the investments it is making. That includes adding 4 million cores and 160 petabytes of storage, along with a full rearchitecting of its backend infrastructure.

But at a press conference and in interviews with The New Stack after the keynote, the leadership team of Jay Parikh, the executive VP of CoreAI at Microsoft who now leads GitHub, and GitHub COO Kyle Daigle also answered questions about what GitHub’s role is in this changing developer landscape — and how they feel about some of the competition that is now popping up in response to these changes.

It’s a timely question, since former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke launched a GitHub alternative just a few days before GitHub’s conference.

When asked about Entire, Dohmke’s startup, at the press conference — and Microsoft’s M12 investment arm funding of Entire — Daigle diplomatically noted that Microsoft often invests in tools “that compete not only with GitHub but with the entirety of the Microsoft product estate. And that’s a good thing. That’s not a bad thing.”

Daigle noted that GitHub operates at a global scale, serves more than 225 million developers, and keeps iterating to better serve them.

“I don’t think the world needs a new GitHub.”
—GitHub COO Kyle Daigle

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