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GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by William_BB »

To me, Github has always seemed well positioned to be a one-stop solution for software development: code, CI/CD, documentation, ticket tracking, project management etc. Could anyone explain where they failed? I keep hearing that Github is terrible

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by sixeyes »

eterm wrote: post #10
_heimdall wrote: post #9

I'm surprised GitHub got by acting fairly independently inside Microsoft for so long. I'm also surprised GitHub employees expected that to last The real problem today IMO is that Microsoft waited so long to drop the charade that they now felt like they had to rip the bandaid. From what I've heard the transition hasn't gone very smoothly at all, and they've mostly been given tight deadlines with little to no help from…

If this were a place for memes, then I'd share that swimming pool meme with Microsoft holding up copilot while GitHub is drowning. Then Azure Dev Ops (formerly known as Visual Studio Team System) dead o n the ocean floor. Although given how badly GitHub seems to be doing, perhaps it's better to be ignored.

why is az devops on the floor? i am having to choose between the clients existing az dops and our internal gitlab for where to host a pipeline, and i don't know what would be good at all

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by MoreQARespect »

_heimdall wrote: post #17
MoreQARespect wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It operated with an independent CEO for a long while. When I saw his interview: https://thenewstack.io/github-ceo-on-why-well-still-need-hum... i thought "oh, there is some semblance of sanity at Microsoft". This was after seeing those ridiculous PRs where microsoft engineers patiently deconstructed AI slop PRs they were forced to deal with on the open source repos they maintained. When he was gone a few months later…

He was never truly independent though. The org structure was such that the GitHub CEO reported up through a Microsoft VP and Satya. He was never really a CEO after the acquisition, it was in name only. Also of note is that the Microsoft org chart always showed GitHub in that structure while the org chart available to GitHub stopped at their CEO. Its not that they were finally rolled into Microsoft's org chart so much…

I never said he was "truly independent" nor meant to imply it.

Nonetheless it looks like he was both willing and able to push back on a good deal of the AI stupidity raining down from above and then he was removed and then, well, this...

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by crote »

mikeve wrote: post #27

Just to add a little bit of nuance to this not because I'm trying to defend GitHub, they definitely need to up their reliability, but the 90% uptime figure represents every single service that GitHub offers being online 90% of the time. You don't need every single service to be online in order to use GitHub. For example, I don't use Copilot myself and it's seen a 96.47% uptime, the worst of the services which are tra…

On the other hand: it also doesn't include instances where GitHub is painfully slow but technically usable.

These days it is very common that something like opening the diff view of a trivial PR takes 15-30 seconds to load. Sure, it will eventually load after a long wait or an F5, but it is still negatively impacting my productivity.

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by CharlieDigital »

William_BB wrote: post #32

To me, Github has always seemed well positioned to be a one-stop solution for software development: code, CI/CD, documentation, ticket tracking, project management etc. Could anyone explain where they failed? I keep hearing that Github is terrible

We use GH and are investing more in the platform features.

Codespaces specifically is quite good for agent heavy teams. Launch a full stack runtime for PRs that are agent owned.

    >  keep hearing that Github is terrible
I do not doubt people are having issues and I'm sure there have been outages and problems, but none that have affected my work for weeks.

GH is many things to many teams and my sense is that some parts of it are currently less stable than others. But the overall package is still quite good and delivers a lot of value, IMO.

There is a bit of an echo chamber effect with GH to some degree.

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