Microsoft needs to get a grip on this situation as the parent company. Their golden goose acquisition is about to become persona non grata if these outages continue.
GitHub incident: 2022/03/24
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#12https://www.githubstatus.com/ at the time of posting, webhooks and actions are still struggling :( there have now been 23 incident outages in 90 days. if anyone from Microsoft is reading this, you need to start considering this degradation as the companies highest priority. At this point, Gitea, Gitlab and others (self hosted or otherwise) are beginning to gain traction as a more reliable and performant alternative.…
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#13Still waiting on that callback/reply. Starting to wonder if Microsoft even wants our money anymore.
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#15How does GitLab compare in terms of it's CI/CD reliability?
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#18https://www.githubstatus.com/ at the time of posting, webhooks and actions are still struggling :( there have now been 23 incident outages in 90 days. if anyone from Microsoft is reading this, you need to start considering this degradation as the companies highest priority. At this point, Gitea, Gitlab and others (self hosted or otherwise) are beginning to gain traction as a more reliable and performant alternative.…
Well there you go. The lesson is to not go 'all in' or 'centralize everything' on GitHub, which is what everyone was doing and why it has now become increasingly unreliable as I predicted, years ago in the long run. [0]
Perhaps it is time to self-host then?
Re: GitHub incident: 2022/03/24
#19https://www.githubstatus.com/ at the time of posting, webhooks and actions are still struggling :( there have now been 23 incident outages in 90 days. if anyone from Microsoft is reading this, you need to start considering this degradation as the companies highest priority. At this point, Gitea, Gitlab and others (self hosted or otherwise) are beginning to gain traction as a more reliable and performant alternative.…
Isn't that basically what happened to Skype? Microsoft paid $8.5B for Skype when it was on top of the world, and now I don't know a single person who uses it.
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#20How does GitLab compare in terms of it's CI/CD reliability?
gitlab feels easier to use, easier to write and i prefer the interface.