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Re: The August 17 outage

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Post by dcrazy »

Kinrany wrote: post #45
cyberax wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This absolutely can happen in large systems. If some part of the system is at capacity, then slightly increasing the load can cause it to fall behind and start accumulating a backlog. These backlogs can cause clients to make more retries, exacerbating the problem. Potentially further cascading through the system.

I believe their point is that "system is at capacity" is something they ought to start fixing before the capacity is exceeded

But then people like OP will claim that the capacity concerns are a lie manufactured to support an unjustified move to Azure.

Re: The August 17 outage

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Post by xyzsparetimexyz »

brookst wrote: post #34
blakesterz wrote: post #4

"Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. " Wow, that is some incredible growth in a really short time.

It really is. I know I've gone from tens a month to thousands a month. They have to be projecting >100B/month in the next year or two.

wow. they should really institute a maximum amount of individual pushes per-month per-user.

Re: The August 17 outage

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Post by cyberax »

bluedino wrote: post #33
ivraatiems wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They had $1b revenue in 2023 and now probably more than $2b in revenue... do you have cost figures showing what their expenses are?

> We have since added more than 3 million CPU cores, 120 petabytes of high-speed storage, and significant network capacity. We installed as much hardware as available power allowed in our existing data centers while accelerating our migration to Azure. That can't be cheap.

A server box now has around 256 CPU cores. So that's about 12000 servers. If each one is $10k that's $120 million. Not a lot compared to Github's income.

Re: The August 17 outage

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Post by dcrazy »

dpweb wrote: post #41

Sorry to suggest this but if they charged everyone say $1/mo. it would absolutely help the massive surge from AI coding they seem to have had. I don't like paying for free stuff but gh certainly worth it.

Pay per issue and commit. Buy 1,000 commit credits at a time.

Might force people to review their slop before pushing it.

Re: The August 17 outage

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Post by Shish2k »

dpweb wrote: post #41

Sorry to suggest this but if they charged everyone say $1/mo. it would absolutely help the massive surge from AI coding they seem to have had. I don't like paying for free stuff but gh certainly worth it.

Unfortunately time and time again, the overwhelming majority of people show that they would rather deal with an unreliable scummy company for "free" than pay $1/mo for a reliable service which treats them with respect :(

Re: The August 17 outage

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Post by 0x457 »

cschep wrote: post #17
lenerdenator wrote: post #13

We need to have a package of FLOSsoftware that you could run on the cloud of your choice that offers most of what GitHub does (niceties on top of Git) without the centralization. GitLab was close last I remember but there was some sort of enterprise tier when I tried hosting stuff on a local server years ago. I want true FLOSS, not another SaaS equivalent of the coke dealer giving clients the good uncut stuff when th…

https://forgejo.org/ promises to be this, have only lightly used it on https://codeberg.org/ but it seems nice?

Forgejo is pretty neat. Their CI story is sad because it's based on act and it lacks features like GH Apps so service accounts are not possible (using a user account as service is barf).

I self-host it and its pretty easy to have uptime higher than github when you have 3 users total.

Absolutely do not recommend using GitLab.

Re: The August 17 outage

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Post by a2ff6eeb0 »

jdm2212 wrote: post #22
annoyingnoob wrote: post #15

Github down, no hard drives available, no memory available, thanks AI! Seems like we are headed for Tech Gridlock.

This stuff is good! This is what a booming economy looks like. There are people out there competing with you for resources because they have cool ideas they want to implement.

Or at least they asked the AI to come up with cool ideas, which is even more interesting. It's exciting watching the world transition away from humanity being in the driver's seat!
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