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Re: GitHub was down

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Second time in what, a week? What is going on at Microsoft?

What is going on that people expect something better from Microsoft? Really this is quite on par with the quality they deliver. The only surprising thing is that people are surprised by this.

I wasn't aware of that reputation, besides Windows ME, that is.

Re: GitHub was down

#23
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Looks like they need some high level analysis on why these outages happen so often. At this point it feels like it’s no longer a series of accidents and that they should improve something.

after this downtime today. We're finally start discussing (again) to use our own Gitlab.

Re: GitHub was down

#25

Seems like things started to go down the drain somewhere around February 2020. https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/kr09ddfgbfsf?page=2 Wonder what was the trigger for the reliability hit - actions went GA on nov 2019, so it's something else (or possibly a combination of things)

Maybe they're migrating their infra to Azure?

Re: GitHub was down

#26
post #13

14 Days ago, they went down [0]. And today it's happening again. Twice in less than a month. Another reminder to self host via solutions like GitLab or Gitea. [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23675864 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676072

You can self-host GitHub too. Or BitBucket.

Re: GitHub was down

#27
Can't wait for the article about this outage, what will it be?

- Auto-scaling issue

- DDOS

- DNS error

- Datacenter outage

Any other possible problems?

Re: GitHub was down

#28

Seems like things started to go down the drain somewhere around February 2020. https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/kr09ddfgbfsf?page=2 Wonder what was the trigger for the reliability hit - actions went GA on nov 2019, so it's something else (or possibly a combination of things)

COVID related work from home adjustments is my guess.

Re: GitHub was down

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

But, UI of Gitlab is very bloated. I feel that UI of Github is less bloater than Gitlab. Gitea is OK,but there is no one big instance(yes,I know about codeberg) . Sourcehut is made by one-man in his one-man shop,and it lacks many features that one needs.Also,it is Alpha software.

> But, UI of Gitlab is very bloated. I feel that UI of Github is less bloater than Gitlab. Bloated how? There is a lot of functionality in gitlab, and maybe there is a fair argument that the product itself is bloated, but the UI seems pretty appropriate for the functionality. Maybe I'm just used to it though.

Gitlab is functional and has more features/functionalities than Github.

But,UI wise , Github is very much slim ,fast and quick. It will function without js. Gitlab although functional will take very much time to load a page(because ,js is used a lot).Making it PWA would solve the problem but it is still not made PWA.

Re: GitHub was down

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again ... well done microsoft. well done. I really don't get why people keep using it, gitlab seems objectively better to me.

Well, let's not forget the Gitlab outage where they basically lost a shit-ton of production data. I mean if we're just comparing apples. https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-datab...

Wow, what a read. I’m sure GitLab has improved and grown a lot since then, but that’s like a comprehensive list of what not to do from an IT perspective. Not ever checking to see if your backups are working, wiping production DBs without a second thought, this post has it all.
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