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Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

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Post by zackify »

junon wrote: post #81
SteveNuts wrote: post #67

I have a serious question, not trying to start a flame war. A. Are these major issues with cloud/SaaS tools becoming more common, or is it just that they get a lot more coverage now? It seems like we see major issues across AWS, GCP, Azure, Github, etc. at least monthly now and I don't remember that being the case in the past. B. If it's becoming more common, what are the reasons? I can think of a few, but I don't kn…

Been on GitHub for a long time. It feels like they're more often. It used to be yearly if at all that GitHub was noticably impacted. Now it's monthly, and recently, seemingly weekly.

there has been 5 between actions and push pull issues just this month. it is more often

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

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Post by andrewstuart2 »

bovermyer wrote: post #129
wnevets wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A. Are these major issues with cloud/SaaS tools becoming more common, or is it just that they get a lot more coverage now? It seems like we see major issues across AWS, GCP, Azure, Github, etc. at least monthly now and I don't remember that being the case in the past. FWIW Microsoft is convinced moving Github to Azure will fix these outages

Microsoft is also convinced that its works are a net benefit for humanity, so I would take that with a grain of salt.

I think it would be pretty hard to argue against that point of view, at least thus far. If DOS/Windows hadn't become the dominant OS someone would have, and a whole generation of engineers cut their teeth on their parents' windows PCs.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

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Post by angrydev »

projproj wrote: post #50

Obviously just speculation, but maybe don't let AI write your code... Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-3...

What a ridiculous comment, as if these outages didn't happen before LLMs became more commonplace.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

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Post by yoyohello13 »

_jab wrote: post #44

GitHub is pretty easily the most unreliable service I've used in the past five years. Is GitLab better in this regard? At this point my trust in GitHub is essentially zero - they don't deserve my money any longer.

We've been self hosting GitLab for 5 years and it's the most reliable service in our organization. We haven't had a single outage. We use Gitlab CI and security scanning extensively.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

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Post by parliament32 »

ElijahLynn wrote: post #111
mandus wrote: post #87

Good thing git was designed as a decentralized revision control system, so you don’t really need GitHub. It’s just a nice convenience

You just lose the "hub" of connecting others and providing a way to collaborate with others with rich discussions.

All of those sound achievable by email, which, coincidently, is also decentralized.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

SteveNuts wrote: post #67

I have a serious question, not trying to start a flame war. A. Are these major issues with cloud/SaaS tools becoming more common, or is it just that they get a lot more coverage now? It seems like we see major issues across AWS, GCP, Azure, Github, etc. at least monthly now and I don't remember that being the case in the past. B. If it's becoming more common, what are the reasons? I can think of a few, but I don't kn…

I’m more interested in how this and the Cloudflare outage occurred on the same day. Is it really just a coincidence?

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

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Post by pm90 »

bstsb wrote: post #139

side effect that isn't immediately obvious: all raw.githubusercontent.com content responds with a "404: Not Found" response. this has broken a few pipeline jobs for me, seems like they're underplaying this incident

yeah something major is borked and they're unwilling to admit it. The status page initially claimed "https git operations are affected" when it was clear that ssh were too (its updated to reflect that now).

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

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Post by sunshine-o »

SteveNuts wrote: post #67

I have a serious question, not trying to start a flame war. A. Are these major issues with cloud/SaaS tools becoming more common, or is it just that they get a lot more coverage now? It seems like we see major issues across AWS, GCP, Azure, Github, etc. at least monthly now and I don't remember that being the case in the past. B. If it's becoming more common, what are the reasons? I can think of a few, but I don't kn…

1/ Most of the big corporations moved to big cloud providers in the last 5 years. Most of them started 10 years ago but it really accelerated in the last 5 years. So there is for sure more weight and complexity on cloud providers, and more impact when something goes wrong.

2/ Then we cannot expect big tech to stay as sharp as in the 2000s and 2010s.

There was a time banks had all the smart people, then the telco had them, etc. But people get older, too comfortable, layers of bad incentive and politics accumulate and you just become a dysfunctional big mess.

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