I feel compelled to repeat my earlier sarcasm:
If only there was some kind of distributed version control system. /s
I don't feel bad being an "old fogie" who demands local copies of my dependencies.
GitHub is degraded/down
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Re: GitHub is degraded/down
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...?
No, I don't think so (and I'm also in Minnesota). I'm going to guess that the increased load is just pushing services over the edge. Edit: Also, interestingly enough, I am now reliably hitting Cloudflare's ORD (Chicago) datacenter instead of MSP. If you visit https://snazz.xyz/cdn-cgi/trace (or any other Cloudflare-backed website), what comes after the COLO= for you?
STL! Ha. Wonder what's going on. I'm on CenturyLink here in the Twin Cities.
Re: GitHub is degraded/down
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
For companies that live on Office 365, it is very popular. With COVID-19, it became a very quick add-on for groups that were already in the O365 ecosystem to add group chat functionality, pretty much with a few clicks. My son’s school was using it before they went remote, but now their usage has increased dramatically.
Re: GitHub is degraded/down
#34Is 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?
My guess is opening their paying offering for free and also Github actions which is CPU-intensive and does much more than the traditional CI/CD tools.
Re: GitHub is degraded/down
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you view the historical uptime, it does seem like there have been more incidents in the past three months, but otherwise the waters look calm (as reported at least): https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=1
Yes, and so this is actually a thing that bugs me, because I use Github every day. Over the past several months, there have been numerous days in which I've had problems (`You can not comment at this time`, 500s, etc.) and no corresponding status report. It seems like the historical uptime page paints a far rosier picture than I am actually experiencing.
I wonder how companies like github decide to determine this when outages are geospecific. Do they not report until an outage is affecting 50% of a geographic region before its reported as a partial outage?
Re: GitHub is degraded/down
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
They've been pushing lots of features in the platform so not surprising that it's a bit unstable now.
In an ideal world, pushing new features would have no impact on stable mature features like browsing files, comment threads, etc
That’s part of the micro service promised land, right?
Re: GitHub is degraded/down
#37I 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!
Yup. Google Cloud seems to be having frequent problems lately.
However, I feel like GitHub being down AND Stack Overflow would slow down work. And HN is a good place to know what's going on.
Re: GitHub is degraded/down
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
They've been pushing lots of features in the platform so not surprising that it's a bit unstable now.
In an ideal world, pushing new features would have no impact on stable mature features like browsing files, comment threads, etc
Ideal I agree ... and yet the real world is exactly the opposite ;)
Re: GitHub is degraded/down
#39Azure 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...?
Also having erratic few minutes outage from my ISP in the UK, which never happened for years.
Global network issue somewhere?
Re: GitHub is degraded/down
#40I feel compelled to repeat my earlier sarcasm: If only there was some kind of distributed version control system. /s I don't feel bad being an "old fogie" who demands local copies of my dependencies.
Github is as much or more a collaboration tool as a Git upstream. The Git part is easy to distribute. The collaboration tool, not so much.
And to anticipate the likely next argument - no, mailing lists are not a better tool for collaboration. They are distributed, sure. In so saying, I have exhausted the list of their virtues.