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Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by Maxion »

> We are seeing an approximate 20% error rate across numerous experiences including Pull Requests, Issues, and others. Investigations are currently under way and we will be posting updates as they become available

Well it's 100% down for me, so does this mean 20% of all users are fully down?

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#62

Post by perrygeo »

aleksandrm wrote: post #27

Can anyone shed some light why GitHub is having so many problems lately?

Github's, COO Kyle Daigle, claimed that the number of commits has increased 14x since last year. So shear scale has something to do with it. I don't know of too much software already operating a planetary scale that could easily absorb a 14x bump in a year.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#63

Post by mrkaye97 »

tempaccount420 wrote: post #48

Why haven't we all moved off GitHub yet? Or let me ask a more useful question: if we were to move, then to where? Ideally somewhere new (not Gitlab)

I think the clear reason is even with their unreliability, the cost of migrating off of GitHub for _most_ places is not worth it, and so companies don't / won't (yet)

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#65

Post by classified »

nerdypepper wrote: post #51
beardedetim wrote: post #15

We're starting to have the conversation of "do we need to replace GitHub as our CI/CD pipeline?" No idea if/when we decide to pull that bandaid but I think once we can't merge a hot fix into main because of GH being down, it'll be a big org push to replace it. What's everyone else using? Self hosted Gitlab? Gitea?

> What's everyone else using? Self hosted Gitlab? Gitea? tangled.org!

I'm completely untangled. From GitHub.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#66

Post by benrutter »

stingraycharles wrote: post #52
khvn26 wrote: post #29

I had a lot of goodwill for GitHub but I think today is the tipping point. Looking at a unicorn page, I feel this lingering hope that it's transient (like it usually was in the old days) but my mind reassures me it's probably going to be a long full outage again. The hope is dead.

I’m willing to give them a break as I’m assuming they have a lot of scaling problems due to the influx of LLM assisted coding. But maybe I’m wrong?

I'm really curious how other codeforges are faring. I only use codeberg and github - codeberg seems to have less outages, especially for a much smaller organisation, but they've recently removed support for LLM projects which could be linked.

Anyone here have data on whether the likes of gitlab have been impacted in the same was as github?

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#68

Post by Maxion »

stingraycharles wrote: post #52
khvn26 wrote: post #29

I had a lot of goodwill for GitHub but I think today is the tipping point. Looking at a unicorn page, I feel this lingering hope that it's transient (like it usually was in the old days) but my mind reassures me it's probably going to be a long full outage again. The hope is dead.

I’m willing to give them a break as I’m assuming they have a lot of scaling problems due to the influx of LLM assisted coding. But maybe I’m wrong?

They've done the typical sillicon valley sillyness of having 10 000 engineers over-engineer a product so that there's way too many features built on top of what should be a simple tool and are now paying the price. Literally every larger US company makes this mistake.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#69

Post by lsuresh »

beardedetim wrote: post #15

We're starting to have the conversation of "do we need to replace GitHub as our CI/CD pipeline?" No idea if/when we decide to pull that bandaid but I think once we can't merge a hot fix into main because of GH being down, it'll be a big org push to replace it. What's everyone else using? Self hosted Gitlab? Gitea?

We use self-hosted Github runners, but it's a moot point if all of Github is mostly down as is the case right now. :\

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#70

Post by nicoburns »

stingraycharles wrote: post #52
khvn26 wrote: post #29

I had a lot of goodwill for GitHub but I think today is the tipping point. Looking at a unicorn page, I feel this lingering hope that it's transient (like it usually was in the old days) but my mind reassures me it's probably going to be a long full outage again. The hope is dead.

I’m willing to give them a break as I’m assuming they have a lot of scaling problems due to the influx of LLM assisted coding. But maybe I’m wrong?

I saw an HN comment a few weeks back claiming their traffic has increased ~10x.
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