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Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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> 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?

To me this makes it uninteresting. Degraded preformance of hyperscalers seems off topic to bundle with e.g. github.com availability. I think the author just wanted the chart to be as red as possible.

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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I didn't know azure was this bad, completely changed my opinion on their cloud offerings

Really? A 10 minute interaction with the platform was enough to inform me that no serious engineer is in charge, and no serious engineer chooses this platform. It is a platform for CFOs to avoid having another vendor relationship.

It's even worse than I'd imagined. See this peer comment w/ link to scathing analysis from an insider:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035171

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 a…

The avalanche of same comments to every meme tier post about this is the opposite of curious. Very little discussion of any merit happens on these posts. It’s mostly bandwagoning and repeating the same comments they read on the last iteration.

I agree... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026924

Yet here we are.

I just don't feel comfortable with you defending the trillion dollar company as if we owe them something, or as if they're somehow the victim in all of this.

I can buy that there's more demand for service, but;

A) They are the ones pushing the AI hype (microsoft especially but github too)

B) These issues existed before the AI hype anyway

and, obviously:

C) We're not saying they're bad engineers, we're saying it's become a bad service... THAT is everyones problem, managements especially. We're not attacking the developers specifically, we're attacking the state of a core service that is failing.

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…

> I’ve personally can’t remember the last time there was an outage that prevented me from doing work.

You and I are in different domains. It's not daily, but I can't remember the last time I (in my company) went a week WITHOUT having to workaround some outage. Perhaps semantics, but I can "do work" through most of them, but that work isn't getting built or deployed in the same time frame it would have been had the outages not occurred. So "affected" is at least weekly for me.

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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Funny how it's less during weekends, as if by them working on it it gets worse and when they leave it alone it's solid.

Kind of normal I think, at the companies I've worked for, most outages were caused by a change in production, for which the impact was not properly assessed.

Also just load. I'm sure many github services are closer to capacity / logjam at 11Am on Tuesday than at 3AM Saturday.

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…

I don't see anything in your description that would imply that those who claim Microslop is performing at below-average-quality right now, can NOT be the underlying cause either. For instance, it may be that the problem is difficult to fix AND that Microslop is really really incompetent at solving this. That is one possibility at the least.

> Just compare the GitHub status page for public GitHub vs the enterprise cloud pages.

I am not sure why that would be an explanation either - it could be that enterprise gets more time and money, whereas the non-paying free-riders naturally get less. This would also make sense from a business point of view (to some extent, though if only enterprise would use github, it would lose its status as main source code hosting website on the planet quickly; others are already waiting to nibble away at GitHub, the more Microslop fails here).

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 a…

>not intellectually curious or open This checks out. I once was at a conference where they (Azure) had a giant booth. A fairly well known person in the community brings me over to talk to his manager who is working the booth. "We should hire him, he's really smart." Within a minute of talking to this manager he says "You're a Linux guy? We do Windows." and physically turns away from me, conversation over. You know, f…

Oof, that’s rough, especially considering that GitHub used to be a Linux shop. I wonder what happened to all the Rails folks who built the OG platform.

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>not intellectually curious or open This checks out. I once was at a conference where they (Azure) had a giant booth. A fairly well known person in the community brings me over to talk to his manager who is working the booth. "We should hire him, he's really smart." Within a minute of talking to this manager he says "You're a Linux guy? We do Windows." and physically turns away from me, conversation over. You know, f…

Oof, that’s rough, especially considering that GitHub used to be a Linux shop. I wonder what happened to all the Rails folks who built the OG platform.

They’re happy and vested probably :)
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