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As the person in charge of one such page, I’d like to take the opportunity to remind folks that many— if not most—of these status pages are hand-updated, and most bosses absolutely hate anyone having to update them to anything but green.
Sounds like an anti-pattern or SLA dodge to me.
Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.
> And I’m the head of engineering at my company. Haha! Happy to see impostor syndrome goes all the way to the top of the hierarchy.
Check out this Ted talk from the co-founder of Atlassian.
https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_cannon_brookes_how_you_can_us...
I feel sympathy for all the engs at companies I've implemented CI/CD based on Gh Actions in recent years. It's not like I didn't tell them that Github showed to be somewhat unreliable in the recent years and in contrast to their claim "it's just the build pipeline, not the product" I think it is a horrible incident if you're not able to deploy to production and have barely any ad-hoc backup. I'm always evangelizing A…
Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.
Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.
Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.
So down right now...I wonder why they still use https://www.githubstatus.com/ that reports everything is alright when it's not!
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Sounds like an anti-pattern or SLA dodge to me.
Sometimes, but sometimes it’s just a precaution against automatic false alarms causing a huge panic.