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Pretty much every company has been shown to have fake status pages at this point.
Status pages are updated by humans and the humans need to (1) realize there's a problem and (2) understand the magnitude of the problem and (3) put that on the status page. It's not fake, it's just a human process. And automating this would be error prone just the same.
https://www.githubstatus.com/ Just flipped to red. See here: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gqx5l06jjxhp >Investigating - We are currently experiencing an outage of GitHub products and are investigating. >Jun 29, 2023 - 17:52 UTC
As the person in charge of one such page, I’d like to take the opportunity to remind folks that many— if not most—of these status pages are hand-updated, and most bosses absolutely hate anyone having to update them to anything but green.
Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.
thats not very healthy given how unreliable github has become in recent years. E.g. just yesterday for a short time frame of a few hours maybe half a day or so they had a bug where some closed PRs where shown in the personal which show created _not closed_ PRs. Or github CI having spurious job cancellations or sometimes on a job failing waits until some (quite long) timeout is reached before reporting it. Or it tempo…
Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.
At a friend's company, the CEO had a calendar invite of "Fire Dan", for April 1. Dan went to confirm it was an April Fools' joke. It wasn't!
Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.
Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.
At a friend's company, the CEO had a calendar invite of "Fire Dan", for April 1. Dan went to confirm it was an April Fools' joke. It wasn't!
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I think the same thing every time my credentials to our issue tracker expires and I have to log in again. I am the lead dev on two projects.
Is there a name for firing trauma? I'm like this ever since I was scapegoated.
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Very good points. Meanwhile I have clients asking me why they can't have a status page to which I reply: you can, but ultimately to be completely fail proof it will be a human updating it slowly. To which they reply: but GitHub or X does it... Very infuriating, that.
There's some nice tooling these days for this. E.g. https://firehydrant.com/ and https://incident.io both make this a faster, more embedded process.
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Strange stuff, as it works completely fine for me in the EU? I just posted comments to several issues. Edit: Front page still loads and I am logged in. Everything is as normal. Status page shows everything is down. Lol.
yes, seems to be a network issue, not a service issue