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Re: GitHub was down

#11

Post by Cafey » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:40 PM UTC

It has leveled up to a major outage!

#12

Post by cjbprime » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:40 PM UTC

tevonsb wrote: post #7

Thoughts on the cause?

Definitely Bitcoin-related.

#13

Post by ProAm » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:44 PM UTC

Githubs uptime is pretty bad. Isn't it under 95% for the year now?

#14

Post by frandroid » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:44 PM UTC

luhn wrote: post #10

Pages Builds Failure Rate spiked to over 2000%. I don't know how that's possible, but it seems pretty bad.

Bad Metric is Bad.

#15

Post by 0xbear » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:44 PM UTC

How many more can we expect before they develop appreciation for testing _before_ they push to prod?

#16

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:44 PM UTC

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#17

Post by peterwwillis » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:45 PM UTC

Dang. It's too bad their customers' source control files aren't distributed and decentralized, or they could keep working and ignore this.

#18

Post by orf » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:45 PM UTC

tevonsb wrote: post #7

Thoughts on the cause?

Not enough mongodb. clearly they are not webscale yet.

#19

Post by toyg » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:46 PM UTC

0xbear wrote: post #15

How many more can we expect before they develop appreciation for testing _before_ they push to prod?

Pushing changes on Monday morning... way to ruin everyone's week!

#20

Post by cjbprime » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 4:46 PM UTC

0xbear wrote: post #15

How many more can we expect before they develop appreciation for testing _before_ they push to prod?

Newly introduced errors in site code are only one of many sources of failure for a site like GitHub, and probably a fairly rare one.