Gitlab was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Gitlab was down

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Post by qaq » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:42 AM UTC

sojmq wrote: post #5

This strikes me as odd, because if there's something gitlab engineers are known for, is their unmatched competence,

Hmm how did you come to this conclusion?

Re: Gitlab was down

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Post by castis » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:42 AM UTC

oof, literally all of it. dont see that too often. on thanksgiving day no less.

i root for gitlab when i can, but theres a reason i mirror my repos to github.

Re: Gitlab was down

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Post by bvm » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:42 AM UTC

I love gitlab, I really do, but their uptime is atrocious for a multi-billion dollar company.

Re: Gitlab was down

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Post by hieudang9 » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:42 AM UTC

I hope this incident is not #HugOps again, waiting for new interesting things from postmortem

Re: Gitlab was down

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Post by the-dude » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:43 AM UTC

It is worth mentioning their status page is not down.

Re: Gitlab was down

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Post by dijit » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:44 AM UTC

Notably they don’t hire any real people with ops experience. Erring instead to go for developers hoping that they can do everything needed.

I like gitlab as a product but they don’t have a service mindset, and I think not hiring operations-centric people is a symptom of that which causes these kinds of issues.

Re: Gitlab was down

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Post by UserIsUnused » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:44 AM UTC

pearjuice wrote: post #6

I don't want to hijack this thread but what was the end result of the decision of Gitlab not hiring _in_ certain countries anymore? A lot of media coverage when the incident happened but no idea what happened afterwards and can't easily find it.

Usually it's Legal/HR issues with the way to pay your employees.

As another one said, their policy in not hiring people "in" rather than "from", as tax rules change from country to country.

Re: Gitlab was down

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Post by progfix » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:45 AM UTC

Uninen wrote: post #8

We use GitLab at work and I use it for personal projects as well, it has been very slow for several days now and they had downtime yesterday as well. I don't mind the general sluggishness of the system that much (as I love the platform in general) but when you can't get your work (nor hobbies) done because of tools breaking, it gets really annoying really fast.

It's not a tool, it's an online service.

Re: Gitlab was down

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Post by iofiiiiiiiii » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:46 AM UTC

sojmq wrote: post #5

This strikes me as odd, because if there's something gitlab engineers are known for, is their unmatched competence,

Good one

Re: Gitlab was down

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 11:47 AM UTC

k_ wrote: post #16

kburman wrote: post #4

> Website, API, Git (ssh and https), Pages, Registry, CI/CD, Background Processing, Support Services, packages.gitlab.com, customers.gitlab.com, version.gitlab.com, forum.gitlab.com How come all of them are down all at once.

Latest tweet by @gitlabstatus said "We've identified an issue with database connectivity", which could explain why so many services are impacted.

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