This happens fairly regularly. Do HNers think that Microsoft azure and/or Ruby has a role in it?
Why would Ruby play a role in it? Azure definitely does though. (ex azure employee here )
GitHub itself is written in Ruby.
GitHub is down
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Re: GitHub is down
#22The status page says it's been resolved 8 minutes ago (Apr 05, 2024 - 08:48 UTC): https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/bnkkbj90yhz6 But it definitely still happens now (500s on refresh on PRs and GitHub actions) Edit: still ongoing Edit 2: still ongoing at Apr 05, 2024 - 08:56 UTC (keeping updated for the record since their status page cannot be trusted apparently) Edit 3: I see they have switched to a different (o…
Initially, perhaps by different teams, three separate incidents were created. Since then, two have been resolved, and one continues to be updated.
Re: GitHub is down
#23The status page says it's been resolved 8 minutes ago (Apr 05, 2024 - 08:48 UTC): https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/bnkkbj90yhz6 But it definitely still happens now (500s on refresh on PRs and GitHub actions) Edit: still ongoing Edit 2: still ongoing at Apr 05, 2024 - 08:56 UTC (keeping updated for the record since their status page cannot be trusted apparently) Edit 3: I see they have switched to a different (o…
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Re: GitHub is down
#24In the past two months, they've had over 10 incidents. Are they so hyped by AI features that they're neglecting their core services?
Re: GitHub is down
#25Classic Github for the past few years we are used to it / resilient now.
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Presumably they intended to entertain. There are absolutely companies running much more complex services with more users than Github but better uptime, so it's absolutely fair to call Github out on their failures. Github has at least an order of magnitude fewer users than something like Google or Facebook.
If your attitude is reflective of the attitude of anyone at Github, calling people entitled who dare complain about the site's downtime rather than taking responsibility and working to better it, it's no surprise that Github has so much downtime.
Re: GitHub is down
#26Since last few months, GitHub has become very unreliable. For example, last month, they reported six official incidents in just one week. I've also noticed many shorter, non-official incidents (i.e. the ones where there is no active incident on their status page, but many API calls return a 500 error). I learned about this the hard way (we offer affordable GitHub Runners at Ubicloud, which gives us the opportunity to observe all these failures firsthand)
Re: GitHub is down
#27Thank god (Linus) that git is a distributed "protocol" letting you pull and push to any location on your file system or anywhere you can access over ssh.
Re: GitHub is down
#28Up in Europe still.
Which country? There are multiple data centers across the continent.
Re: GitHub is down
#29In the past two months, they've had over 10 incidents. Are they so hyped by AI features that they're neglecting their core services?
Please stop doing catsstrophising tech journalist cosplay.