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Re: GitHub Incident

#11

Post by corvad » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 5:31 PM UTC

Github's recent reliability has honestly been abysmal. Not surprised.

Re: GitHub Incident

#12

Post by lenerdenator » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 5:33 PM UTC

nottimbo wrote: post #3

Microsoft, it's time to hire some SREs.

Why hire anyone to fix a problem when you can make an AI agent to "fix" it, tell investors about it to pump the price, and not fix anything knowing that you have a monopoly?

Re: GitHub Incident

#13

Post by zxcvasd » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 5:43 PM UTC

postexitus wrote: post #4

I believe it is an Azure outage or some type of MS service - everything on Azure is down.

having no issues on azure here, seeing no azure incidents on the status page or any of my admin panels

Re: GitHub Incident

#14

Post by bakje » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

Perhaps the gemini-cli bot arguing with itself is taking its toll

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16750

Re: GitHub Incident

#15

Post by odie5533 » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

tapoxi wrote: post #8

helm repo add gitlab https://charts.gitlab.io/ && helm upgrade --install gitlab gitlab/gitlab I did this in 2019, it avoided so many headaches. CI is better too since there's a nice clean mapping of build -> pod for everything and I can just exec in if something's borked.

Things would have to get really bad before I considered managing my own repositories. Trading someone else's headaches for my own.

Re: GitHub Incident

#16

Post by verst » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

zxcvasd wrote: post #13

postexitus wrote: post #4

I believe it is an Azure outage or some type of MS service - everything on Azure is down.

having no issues on azure here, seeing no azure incidents on the status page or any of my admin panels

I second this. Not experiencing any Azure issues at this time.

Re: GitHub Incident

#17

Post by johnisgood » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 5:46 PM UTC

bakje wrote: post #14

Perhaps the gemini-cli bot arguing with itself is taking its toll https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16750

Wonderful, lmao.

Re: GitHub Incident

#18

Post by ascendantlogic » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 5:46 PM UTC

nullfish wrote: post #2

I suspect the migration to Azure is continuing to go well

This feels more like Copilot-as-platform-engineer to me

Re: GitHub Incident

#19

Post by ferguess_k » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 5:47 PM UTC

corvad wrote: post #11

Github's recent reliability has honestly been abysmal. Not surprised.

Unless some major customers are moving away, I don't think they are going to seriously care about it.

Re: GitHub Incident

#20

Post by ferguess_k » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 5:50 PM UTC

nottimbo wrote: post #3

Microsoft, it's time to hire some SREs.

Yes we did hire SREs, unfortunately they are in another continent and they only know how to pull others into the chat. We also have some AI too, do you want to try them? They are pretty good SREs, one of them wrote 100K lines of code in a week while another one reviews every line along the way. It was fantastic! Fantastic!! FANTASTIC!!!

OK I have no idea about MSFT SREs, just to be /s.