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github has had a few of these as of late, starting to get old
MSFT intentionally degrading operations to get everyone to move onto Azure… oh, wait, they just moved GitHub there, carry on my wayward son!
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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.
There are some pretty zany alternative realities in the Multiverses I’ve visited. Xerox Parc never went under and developed computing as a much more accessible commodity. Another, Bell labs invented a whole category of analog computers that’s supplanted our universe’s digital computing era. There’s one where IBM goes directly to super computers in the 80s. While undoubtedly Microsoft did deliver for many of us, I am…
1.) It's already a miracle Xerox PARC escaped their parent company's management for as long as they did.
3.) IBM was playing catch-up on the supercomputer front since the CDC 6400 in 1964. Arguably, they did finally catch up in the mid-late 80's with the 3090.
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You can make it as reliable as you want by hosting it on prem.
Flashbacks to me pushing hard for GitLab self hosting a few months ago. The rest of the team did not feel the lift was worth it. I utterly hate being at the mercy of a third party with an after thought of a "status page" to stare at.
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.
You can make it as reliable as you want by hosting it on prem.
We self-host GitLab but the team owning it is having hard time scaling it. From my understanding talking to them, the design of gitaly makes it very hard to scale it beyond certain repo size and # of pushes per day (for reference: our repos are GBs in size, ~1M commits, hundreds of merges per day)
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.
Good thing git was designed as a decentralized revision control system, so you don’t really need GitHub. It’s just a nice convenience
This escalator is temporarily stairs, sorry for the convenience.
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.
Self-hosted Gitlab periodically blocks access for auto-upgrades. Github.com upgrades are usually invisible.
Github.com is periodically hit with the broad/systemic cloud-outage. Self-hosted Gitlab is more decentralized infra, so you don't have the systemic outages.
With self-hosted Gitlab, you likely to have to deal with rude bots on your own. Github.com has an ops team that deals with the rude bots.
I'm sure the list goes on. (shrug)
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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.
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This escalator is temporarily stairs, sorry for the convenience.
Tbh, I personally don't trust a stopped escalator. Some of the videos of brake failures on them scared me off of ever going on them.
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…
Among other mentioned factors like AI and layoffs: mass brain damage caused by never-ending COVID re-infections.
Since vaccines don't prevent transmission, and each re-infection increases the chances of long COVID complications, the only real protection right now is wearing a proper respirator everywhere you go, and basically nobody is doing that anymore.
There are tons of studies to back this line of reasoning.