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Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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This is the reason, at least what I know from people who worked there, the azure migration has been very painful as far as I’m aware

yep this was the same with LinkedIn who killed the migration after massive massive costs ~ https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2023/12/14/microsofts-li...

Oh I’m adding that one to my mental list of Microsoft failure

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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It was related to their migration to Azure as far as I know

So they completed the migration? Didn't see that being reported.

Probably not. Also they still haven't added ipv6 support

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So you're spamming github with slop and actual good code can't be merged? Got it.

I dont use github much. I dont understand why you are upset. I literally have not criticised github either. Are you some sort of emotional idiot?

Sorry I mean to say something kinder but I lost my patience apologies

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Ex-Microsoft, ex-GitHub, laid off nine months ago, not going to violate any agreements, but I will give some context. A lot of this applies to any large engineering org, really. Hilarious that this entire thread is people speculating on things they have no idea about. If it sounds like I'm defending GitHub a bit, yeah, I am. I can't think of a comparable situation that any other web site has been through. This isn't…

Lots of good points in there but when you say "swapped out data center" that sounds very un-cloudy and unreliable to me - workloads in AWS are spread across many buildings unless you try really hard or pay $$$$

yes, it does sound weird to brag about that. 'Swapping out a data center' is something engineers working for AWS or GCP are do practiaclly every week.

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They didn't leave the architecture alone, right? They shoved React in and created a weird SSR + React frankenstein that is objectively worse in many ways.

And yet, the React/SSR infra has never gone down.

Well, maybe not completely down but the amount of navigation issues, screen flickers and unhydrated stylesheets I have everyday is not something I'd expect from such a product.
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