Just replace Rails with Clojure.
GitHub is degraded/down
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Re: GitHub is degraded/down
#12Is it just me, or has Github's quality of service been continually degrading over the past several months? What is going on internally? Is this because of the Microsoft acquisition? Increased usage? An internal transition to Azure? ...is it time to move away from Github?
It might also be covid related. People are working from home, people responsible for system upkeep might not be immediately responsive, more demand on the servers for whatever reason, etc.
I would agree that the coronavirus could be a factor here. At the same time, I've been noticing issues since probably December or January (before the coronavirus started being a real problem), which makes it seem like maybe there are multiple issues.
Of course, I'm not actually internal to Microsoft or Github, so I have no idea and it's all opaque to me.
Re: GitHub is degraded/down
#13I think my biggest nightmare is SO, GH, and HN all being down at the same time. Edit: A nightmare is an exaggeration. But it would slow down work.
Reddit and Rocket League servers were degraded simultaneously yesterday, and if I recall correctly they both host on Google Cloud (I may be mistaken there). My paranoia of a high impact state-sponsored cyber attack have been high!
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#14Why not make two versions of GitHub, one free and one paid, having professional-level uptime and support? Is that the idea behind GitHub Enterprise (https://github.com/enterprise)?
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#15Why not make two versions of GitHub, one free and one paid, having professional-level uptime and support? Is that the idea behind GitHub Enterprise ( https://github.com/enterprise )?
Yes. Enterprise has an SLA (when GitHub hosts it) and an option to self-host.
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#16Is it just me, or has Github's quality of service been continually degrading over the past several months? What is going on internally? Is this because of the Microsoft acquisition? Increased usage? An internal transition to Azure? ...is it time to move away from Github?
It might also be covid related. People are working from home, people responsible for system upkeep might not be immediately responsive, more demand on the servers for whatever reason, etc.
Maybe it's the demand side? With remote work, the intensity of usage went up at least in our company as we rely more on written communication. At the same time, some people will use the time to start side projects or get into programming.
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#17Azure is also refusing to allocate me capacity - I'm wondering if this is a general MSFT outage?
Here in Minnesota, several coworkers and I are having trouble with our ISP. And a website we host is (apparently) being DDoSed. And now GitHub's down, and you're reporting some Azure issue. Is something going on...?
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#18Azure is also refusing to allocate me capacity - I'm wondering if this is a general MSFT outage?
Or their data centers are just full. Teams had a tremendous growth, so did their O365 suite and probably also Azure itself. At some point even the largest vendors run out of servers.
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#19Azure is also refusing to allocate me capacity - I'm wondering if this is a general MSFT outage?
Or their data centers are just full. Teams had a tremendous growth, so did their O365 suite and probably also Azure itself. At some point even the largest vendors run out of servers.
I had never heard of Microsoft Teams until yesterday when I saw it on a TV commercial.
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#20In my experience, nothing is correlated more with downtime than code changes. Github has been pushing a lot more features since the Microsoft acquisition, and has felt down a lot more often since then.
There has been one major outage a month the last several months, with sprinklings of little outages (I recall webhooks down quite a lot). The cadence of these outages is rapidly changing my perception of Github as a reliable service.