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Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

#71
> Disruption with Gemini 2.5 Pro model

> Disruption with Grok Code Fast 1 in Copilot

> Incident with Copilot Grok Code Fast 1

> Claude Opus 4 is experiencing degraded performance

It doesn't seem fair to blame Github for this? There's nothing they can do about it?

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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post #17

I wonder how well this corolates with azure incidents. Especially for the US regions.

I live in Europe. I've not noticed these constant outages. But I only use GitHub after work.

Interesting. I'm in EU and see these constantly but usually in the afternoon so it bothers me less as I'm already wrapping up, but my US coworkers are getting hit much worse.

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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Every time one of these vibe coded meme sites gets posted there’re endless comments about how it’s not actually because of load, the GitHub team is shit, their tech stack is shit, Microsoft is shit, Azure is shit, etc. Just compare the GitHub status page for public GitHub vs the enterprise cloud pages. Enterprise has much better numbers and I’ve personally can’t remember the last time there was an outage that prevent…

What do you mean by enterprise cloud? The default GitHub enterprise cloud plan is hosted on the same infra as “public github.” Do you have a link to what you mean?

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

#76

Every time one of these vibe coded meme sites gets posted there’re endless comments about how it’s not actually because of load, the GitHub team is shit, their tech stack is shit, Microsoft is shit, Azure is shit, etc. Just compare the GitHub status page for public GitHub vs the enterprise cloud pages. Enterprise has much better numbers and I’ve personally can’t remember the last time there was an outage that prevent…

> the GitHub team is shit, their tech stack is shit

1) Criticism of being unable to achieve service is not a fault of the individual; it simply is a fault of the system. You can criticise the system, it's permissible. Especially if they have more resources than many countries and some of the best tech talent in the world on staff.

2) Their tech stack is shit, and they've gone on record for years defending it, quite arrogantly in some cases, as if nobody can possibly know anything unless they've done github (even if you've done things which scale, or someone comes in with an even larger scale, the people on HN will happily say "but it's not github" which is valid but not intellectually curious or open).

Azure is terrible and it's being foisted on the team: even if they found some technical people to put at the top who are saying it'll be ok: it is a pretty cruel platform to use.

I've personally had a few conversations about their choice of relational database which were handled pretty defensively, and I think we're all somewhat cognisant of their frontend rewrite.

It's a waste of time to rewrite the UI and push AI tools when you can't even keep the site lit.

I have nothing against the engineers- I don't know why people keep chiming in as if we're punching down at "lowly engineers" when the reality is that it's a management failure of the highest order.

They're a billion-dollar company owned by a trillion-dollar one... it's very hard to "punch down" at this system: nobody is going after the engineer, we're punching the fact that the system that is a defacto monopoly due to network effects is putting new features or pleasing their owners over the core offering.. How is that an engineering failure? That's an active choice by management.

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

#77
post #9

Weekends are the untapped frontier. Still room to scale.

yup! When i did an analysis last month, GitHub is up 89.3% on weekdays and 96.5% on weekends. Incidents touch 62% of weekdays and 11% of weekends. Claude shows the same pattern: 92.5% weekday, 97.8% weekend. Tuesday through Thursday is the danger zone. Sunday is practically a different service.

https://www.aakash.io/tech-chase/github-and-claude-are-down-...

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

#79

> Disruption with Gemini 2.5 Pro model > Disruption with Grok Code Fast 1 in Copilot > Incident with Copilot Grok Code Fast 1 > Claude Opus 4 is experiencing degraded performance It doesn't seem fair to blame Github for this? There's nothing they can do about it?

Depends on who's hosting the models.

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

#80

Every time one of these vibe coded meme sites gets posted there’re endless comments about how it’s not actually because of load, the GitHub team is shit, their tech stack is shit, Microsoft is shit, Azure is shit, etc. Just compare the GitHub status page for public GitHub vs the enterprise cloud pages. Enterprise has much better numbers and I’ve personally can’t remember the last time there was an outage that prevent…

What do you mean by enterprise cloud? The default GitHub enterprise cloud plan is hosted on the same infra as “public github.” Do you have a link to what you mean?

Bottom of the status page links to the Enterprise regions?

> Check GitHub Enterprise Cloud status by region:

> - Australia: au.githubstatus.com

> - EU: eu.githubstatus.com

> - Japan: jp.githubstatus.com

> - US: us.githubstatus.com

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