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Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

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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.

Couldn't log into it this morning when cloudflare was down so there's that.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#163
Ton of people in the comments here wanting to blame AI for these outages. Either you are very new to the industry or have forgotten how frequently they happen. Github in particular was a repeat offender before the MS acquisition. us-east-1 went down many times before LLMs came about. Why act like this is a new thing?

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#164

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SSH also down

SSH is as decentralized as git - just push to your own server? No problem.

Well sure but you can't get any collaborators commits that were only pushed to GitHub before it went down.

Well you can with some effort. But there's certainly some inconvenience.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#165
post #83
post #14

I didn't really want to work today anyways. First cloudflare, now this... Seems like a sign to get some fresh air

we depend too much on usa centralized tech. we need more soverenity and decentralization.

Please check out radicle.dev, helping hands always welcome!

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#166
I'm going to awkwardly bring up that we have avoided all github downtime and bugs and issues by simply not using github.

Our git server is hosted by Atlassian. I think we've had one outage in several years?

Our self hosted Jenkins setup is similarly robust, we've had a handful of hours of "Can't build" in again, several years.

We are not a company made up of rockstars. We are not especially competent at infrastructure. None of the dev teams have ever had to care about our infrastructure (occasionally we read a wiki or ask someone a question).

You don't have to live in this broken world. It's pretty easy not to. We had self hosted Mercurial and jenkins before we were bought by the megacorp, and the megacorp's version was even better and more reliable.

Self host. Stop pretending that ignoring complexity is somehow better.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#168

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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.

I'm not convinced of your first point. Just because something seems difficult to avoid given the current context does not mean it was the only path available.

Your second point is a little disingenuous. Yes, Microsoft and Windows have been wildly successful from a cultural adoption standpoint. But that's not the point I was trying to argue.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

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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.

What if that alternate someone had been better than DOS/Windows and then engineers cut their teeth on that instead?
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