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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by Moto7451 »

tinalumfoil wrote: post #54
kaikai wrote: post #27

I would love to see a chart of traffic to other sites when GitHub goes down. My bet is that HackerNews and Twitter both get significant spikes from all those bored developers.

> bored developers Bored? Git's a distributed version control system, so no excuses. Get back to work! But in all seriousness I kind of wish GitHub provided a way to mirror things like issues and PRs so you never have to be fully reliant on one service. Not being able to read these really does make it impossible to get work done offline.

My guess is their sales pitch would be for you to run your own instance of Github Enterprise or doing something fancy with Web Hooks. At work we did the former for a while before switching to Gitlab. We had less downtime than Github (not that they have much) but since the ops is on you in that situation, YMMV.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by heartbreak »

syshum wrote: post #62
tinalumfoil wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> bored developers Bored? Git's a distributed version control system, so no excuses. Get back to work! But in all seriousness I kind of wish GitHub provided a way to mirror things like issues and PRs so you never have to be fully reliant on one service. Not being able to read these really does make it impossible to get work done offline.

But they want you to Rely on Github... if they could find away to make Git only work with Github they would in a heart bet. Github is not a open source company, it is not really even a supporter of free software IMO they are a danger to free software for this very reason. They are following the old school Microsoft model of Embrace and Extend... I am waiting to see if they can extinguish,

What? Github employs members of the Rails core team including Aaron Patterson. They literally pay for open source software development.

I'm sure they employ direct maintainers/contributors to other open source projects as well.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by eberkund »

heartbreak wrote: post #72
syshum wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But they want you to Rely on Github... if they could find away to make Git only work with Github they would in a heart bet. Github is not a open source company, it is not really even a supporter of free software IMO they are a danger to free software for this very reason. They are following the old school Microsoft model of Embrace and Extend... I am waiting to see if they can extinguish,

What? Github employs members of the Rails core team including Aaron Patterson. They literally pay for open source software development. I'm sure they employ direct maintainers/contributors to other open source projects as well.

The Atom editor is widely used and was a major inspiration for VS Code. Electron, which is a GitHub project is also used for countless other projects.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by csense »

mschuster91 wrote: post #33
toyg wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is not the files, it's the project management stuff (issues and PR tracking). That is a SPOF. If they could decentralize that, then nobody would care if they are down half the time.

I wonder why you can't export them as a read-only git repository. (Read-only to avoid people messing around with the history)

Because that would make it easier to migrate away from Github, which Github doesn't want you to do.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by peterwwillis »

toyg wrote: post #23
peterwwillis wrote: post #17

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

The problem is not the files, it's the project management stuff (issues and PR tracking). That is a SPOF. If they could decentralize that, then nobody would care if they are down half the time.

They can - it's called Github Enterprise (or if you're a medium to large corporation, JIRA). I thought occasional downtime was just something people factored into free services. You can always file your issues later, or use a chat service (or, heaven forbid, email) if there's an immediate need for feedback.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by coldcode »

saagarjha wrote: post #61
wooter wrote: post #53

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but github is honestly so nice. I'll admit in a very subjective way. whats your favorite decentralized vcs?

The joke is that git is decentralized–it's just GitHub that's a single point of failure.

We have Gitlab Enterprise and it has trouble scaling.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by rcthompson »

Looking at the status graphs, it seems like there was some clearly anomalous data starting around midnight, about 9 hours before the actual outage "began". Maybe a gradual botnet ramp-up, and 9:27 AM is when it got bad enough to overload some critical service? (Or really any other threshold-based failure scenario.)

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by eropple »

heartbreak wrote: post #72
syshum wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But they want you to Rely on Github... if they could find away to make Git only work with Github they would in a heart bet. Github is not a open source company, it is not really even a supporter of free software IMO they are a danger to free software for this very reason. They are following the old school Microsoft model of Embrace and Extend... I am waiting to see if they can extinguish,

What? Github employs members of the Rails core team including Aaron Patterson. They literally pay for open source software development. I'm sure they employ direct maintainers/contributors to other open source projects as well.

Yup. GitHub also released/contributed to a lot of other open-source Ruby stuff, like Resque.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by aksx »

rcthompson wrote: post #78

Looking at the status graphs, it seems like there was some clearly anomalous data starting around midnight, about 9 hours before the actual outage "began". Maybe a gradual botnet ramp-up, and 9:27 AM is when it got bad enough to overload some critical service? (Or really any other threshold-based failure scenario.)

or a bad commit being deployed on their fleet.
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