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Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#201
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

As long as you didn't go all in on GitHub Actions. Like my company has.

Do you think you'd get better uptime with your own solution? I doubt it. It would just be at a different time.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#202

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FYI in an emergency you can SSH to your server and edit files and the DB directly. Where is your god now, proponents of immutable filesystems?!

FYI in an emergency, you can buy a plane ticket and send someone to access the server directly. I actually had the privilege of being sent to the server.

Had a coworker have to drive across the country once to hit a power button (many years ago).

Because my suggestion they have a spare ADSL connection for out of channel stuff was an unnecessary expense... Til he broke the firewall knocked a bunch of folks offline across a huge physical site and locked himself out of everything.

The spare line got fitted the next month.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#203
I have said this before, and I will say this again: GitHub stars[1] are the real lock-in for GitHub. That's why all open-core startups are always requesting you to "star them on GitHub".

The VCs look at stars before deciding which open-core startup to invest in.

The 4 or 5 9s of reliability simply do not matter as much.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#204
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

Curious whether you actually think this, or was it sarcasm?

It was sarcasm, but git itself is Decentralized VCS. Technically speaking, every git checkout is a repo of itself. GitHub doesn't stop me from having the entire repo history up to last pull, and I still can push either to the company backup server or my coworker directly.

However, since we use github.com fore more than just a git hosting it is SPOF in most cases, and we treat it as a snow day.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#205
post #27

Cherry on top will be another aws outage

Funny you should say that, I'm here looking because our monitoring server is seeing 80-90% packet loss on our wireguard from our data center to EC2 Oregon...

FYI: Not AWS. Been doing some more investigation, it looks like it's either at our data center, or something on the path to AWS, because if I fail over to our secondary firewall it takes a slightly different path both internally and externally, but the packet loss goes away.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#206

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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.

DOS and Windows kept computing behind for a VERY long time, not sure what you're trying to argue here?

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#207

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As long as you didn't go all in on GitHub Actions. Like my company has.

Do you think you'd get better uptime with your own solution? I doubt it. It would just be at a different time.

Compared to 2025 github yeah I do think most self-hosted CI systems would be more available. Github goes down weekly lately.

Re: GitHub: Git operation failures

#210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as you didn't go all in on GitHub Actions. Like my company has.

Do you think you'd get better uptime with your own solution? I doubt it. It would just be at a different time.

Doesn’t have to be an in house system, just basic redundancy is fine. eg a simple hook that pushes to both GitHub and gitlab
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