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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 cesarb »

speleding wrote: post #112
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?

If your app is not too large you can do CI/CD perfectly fine from your laptop. Put it in a docker container if you want to ensure it is perfectly reproducible. You still need Github as the origin repo to pull from, but the "git part" of GitHub seems to be (almost) always up and running. (We use "capistrano" for this)

> If your app is not too large you can do CI/CD perfectly fine from your laptop.

Not if you want to make sure it compiles and works on Windows (which you don't have) or macOS (which you don't have and can't emulate). That's something github gives for free, and for me, it's the only reason to stay on github for small/tiny free software projects (at least as a secondary host).

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by xnorswap »

icepush wrote: post #268
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…

I think that, exactly how 95% of the people that left Twitter eventually returned, we will see a similar outflux of people from Github and the vast majority of them will quietly be back in a few months.

That was a political decision, this is an operational one. A lot of companies have become dependent on a working github and effectively have to down tools when it is down.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by ayewo »

nicoburns wrote: post #70
stingraycharles wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yup.

The original source was Kyle Daigle, GH COO.

- https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

- https://xcancel.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by OtomotO »

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

You know, I am not employed.

I have little time in my day to spend with my daughter. But I also have responsibilities. And one client has decided to bet on github. It's the only client I've ever worked with who has their code on github. EVERY other client has hosted their own gitforge or used bitbucket.

So now I am not angry because some critical piece of US-american infrastructure is down all the time.

I am angry because instead of spending time with my daughter I have to work on this later, because there are due dates and "Well, fucking GitHub was down" ain't gonna cut it.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by c-hendricks »

stetrain wrote: post #58

githubstatus.com has been updated with an incident now: > Update - 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 Aug 17, 2026 - 13:45 UTC

It sounds like what I was seeing when trying to view PRs last night, so it started almost 12 hours ago.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by otterley »

AlexandrB wrote: post #167
askonomm wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Boomer opinion but trusting third parties to be critical infrastructure, especially with no SLA in sight, will always end in tears. "The cloud" is very convenient, but its providers will never care about your infrastructure or your customers as much as you will.

3P-maintained infrastructure is what makes civilizations work efficiently. We're not all digging our own wells, generating our own electricity, and burning or burying our own garbage.
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