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Incident with Github.com [resolved]
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Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#332Whatever it is, it seems to be getting worse: started with pull requests and Actions being down, now I can't even list my repos. Might be the worst one yet.
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#333To 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
> Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code I sympathized with them when they said this a handful of months ago, but then I saw this [0] page that shows how it's been shot for years prior (which tracks with my memory). I feel for the GH engineers that have to deal with this, especially the SREs. I also don't hate the dow…
They've had a couple of months and still have not brought in sufficient extra capacity?? What's their excuse?
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#334Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Older millennial here and I agree. If you rely on Github you should at least be have your processes such that you can work around it.
That's the reason why my build agent is self-hosted
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#335This 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…
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Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd be curious what the statistics might actually be for people who are directly affected because their business is suffering vs. people affected because their employer's business is suffering.
Most people's employment prospects are directly correlated with their employers ability to make money.
most people's employers arent firing people over a few hours of github outage.
not to mention that any business which could potentially lose enough money that they would need to let go of developers from a github outage should probably already have some business continuity plans in place.
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#337To 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
It's every other day now. We pay for a service, we expect service.
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#338This 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.
Was this reported and quantified somewhere, or does 95% reflect your experience? My experience was the opposite -- everybody I cared to follow left and never went back -- but I'd be willing to believe I'm in the 5%.
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#339It's been a downward spiral since covid. Enterprise works ok-ish, but the standard version has daily issue ever since.
I don't have data for it, but I have been a Github user since 2012 and have found it to be down often for pretty much that entire time. I always figured it's cultural to a degree–new features always seem pretty buggy/underbaked, and often continue to long term but remain unloved and incomplete.
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#340Ah, so that's what the agent meant by summarizing a documentation page as "Unicorn!" I'd thought it was a very colorful hallucination (it's just GitHub's (unicorn-themed) failure page). Gathered details on embedding request syntax from Unicorn! · GitHub I was querying docs to figure out how to set up RAG to query docs locally. Alas.
i'm surprised the agent didn't take into consideration the http status code
What’s the code for http unicorn? /s