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Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by delduca »

ieie3366 wrote: post #100

To everyone who is angry: calm down. Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code Unless you have a emergency hotfix (you don’t), go hit the gym or walk outside. If a work tool going down triggers you enough mentally to start angrily ranting online, it’s a sign you need to chill out and focus more on your health

> increased something like 50x due to LLM

This should not be an excuse since they probably can use AI to fix it /partially sarcasm

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by eddieroger »

ieie3366 wrote: post #100

To everyone who is angry: calm down. Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code Unless you have a emergency hotfix (you don’t), go hit the gym or walk outside. If a work tool going down triggers you enough mentally to start angrily ranting online, it’s a sign you need to chill out and focus more on your health

For the amount of money enterprises are paying to GitHub, there is a reasonable (and contractual) expectation of uptime. I don't think my boss would find it to fun if I bailed work to hit the gym just because GitHub was down.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by noosphr »

Arubis wrote: post #99

This is starting to feel like Twitter. For a variety of reasons, we had a centralized place where everyone of a particular set of persuasions could connect, and this had outsize benefits for the community as a whole. That place is becoming untenable, and with the loss of goodwill and stability, the community’s started to dissipate. But there isn’t one obvious transition candidate, so the diaspora is finding itself sp…

Luckily we already have a distributed version control system that can take over github: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

I suppose people can use git too if they ever figure out how to send emails from a dedicated client.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by bhouston »

ndriscoll wrote: post #91
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)

Ideally something like IPNS to have a mutable ref based on (repo, pubkey, branch) to resolve a commit hash, a DHT for who has what commit hashes, and then just p2p transfers. You could still have a github or gitlab for issues and CI, but code (and maybe issues) could all be p2p like git is already designed for. Your forge could also act as a peer for code cloning, of course.

I do not need it to be meaningfully different than Github, it sounds like that introduces additional complexity. I just want Github that works.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by sscaryterry »

c2403 wrote: post #78
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?

Have you considered Codeberg?

Different set of ideologies completely, not an alternative.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by AgentK20 »

ieie3366 wrote: post #100

To everyone who is angry: calm down. Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code Unless you have a emergency hotfix (you don’t), go hit the gym or walk outside. If a work tool going down triggers you enough mentally to start angrily ranting online, it’s a sign you need to chill out and focus more on your health

what if I do have an emergency hotfix for a production outage though ;-;

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by bamboozled »

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?

Isn't all the LLMs and AI supposed to be "solving these problems" because all the engineers are now 10x ? Not being sarcastic but I mean, this is what we were told and sold...by the likes of...Microsoft.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by askonomm »

ieie3366 wrote: post #100

To everyone who is angry: calm down. Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code Unless you have a emergency hotfix (you don’t), go hit the gym or walk outside. If a work tool going down triggers you enough mentally to start angrily ranting online, it’s a sign you need to chill out and focus more on your health

That's an overly optimistic view of things. For a lot of us GitHub is critical infrastructure, which if it goes down loses us and our customers money.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by ArcHound »

mrkaye97 wrote: post #63
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)

This bugs me so much. Management decides what is reasonable cost of service and the employees have to deal with all bullshit coming from that product. And you can't really escape it. Maybe the real moat was enterprise deals we made along the way.
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