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Re: GitHub is down

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Thank 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.

Git itself is only a piece of the puzzle, you still need synchronisation points for collaboration e.g. bug reports, code reviews, discussions, CI, synchronisation, etc…

Those are the services forges provide.

Also git’s support for point to point distribution is bad. I miss `hg serve`.

Re: GitHub is down

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post #26

Since 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…

Curious if this is related to them adopting azure

Did they officially announced they are adopting Azure?

Re: GitHub is down

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post #54
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I took it totally differently (it was humerous, with a hint of irony I'd expect a Brit[0] to appreciate): that due to Github's lack of resilience, the poster has had to become resilient in their own daily practice. [0] > 'bloody annoying'

This was exactly what I was trying to express.

Apologies if this was misunderstood, I'd absolutely not do better than Github teams.

Re: GitHub is down

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post #43

In the past two months, they've had over 10 incidents. Are they so hyped by AI features that they're neglecting their core services?

New features are sexy. Core stability is boring. AI is just the latest new feature.

True, and SRE teams get smaller and smaller and/or tasked to do other non-related things. So when users start leaving for some competitor, the same SRE team suddenly gets more heat, pressure, more belt tightening, more meetings "for transparency and coordination", and directly and indirectly more blame. Ask me how I know... I bet its a story as old as time though.

Re: GitHub is down

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post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I took it totally differently (it was humerous, with a hint of irony I'd expect a Brit[0] to appreciate): that due to Github's lack of resilience, the poster has had to become resilient in their own daily practice. [0] > 'bloody annoying'

This was exactly what I was trying to express. Apologies if this was misunderstood, I'd absolutely not do better than Github teams.

Thanks for clarifying. The downvotes and other comments teach me to enjoy sarcasm a bit better.

Re: GitHub is down

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The 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…

Status pages can never be trusted.

What about something like https://heiioncall.com/status (disclosure: helped build it) which gives a real-time view into what our monitoring & alerting system sees, both from various HTTP endpoint checks, and cronjob checkins?

But I don’t think most orgs would want a public version of this (too much transparency), which is why we haven’t built that.

Re: GitHub is down

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Thank 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.

This comes up pretty much everytime Github is down. Github is not a replacement for git. Github is an issue tracker and CI platform just as much as it is a git hosting site, none of which git can provide by itself. It's complementary. The comment really doesn't make any sense.

It's like being snarky about the distributiveness of git when the Linux kernel mailing list goes down.

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