Azure Screen of Death?
GitHub is down again
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Re: GitHub is down again
#22It's really pathetic for however many trillions MSFT is valued.
If we had a government worth anything, they ought to pass a law that other competitors be provided mirror APIs so that the entire world isn't shut off from source code for a day. We're just asking for a world wide disaster.
Re: GitHub is down again
#23Looks like they've got a status page up now for PRs, separate from the earlier notifications one: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smf24rvl67v9
Edit: Now acknowledging issues across GitHub as a whole, not just PRs.
Re: GitHub is down again
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#25Do they publish proper post-mortems? I feel like that's gotta be the bare minimum nowadays for such critical digital infrastructure.
The new-fangled copilot/agentic stuff I do read about on HN is meaningless to me if the core competency is lost here.
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#26Seems like MS copilot is vibe-ing it again ! Some other major cloud provider outages come to mind that never happened before the "vibe" area.
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#27Oh! It's not my GitLab@Hetzner that's not working, it's GitHub. Just when I decided to opensource my project.
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#28Has anyone noticed that in the past year we have seen a LOT of outages?
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#29pretty clear that companies like microsoft are actually terrible at engineering, their core products were built 30 years ago. any changes now are generally extremely incremental and quickly rolled back with issue. trying to innovate at github shows just how bad they are.
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#30presumably slophub's now dogfooding GitHub Agentic Workflows?