The historical uptime has been getting better but it is on a downwards trajectory in August:
Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved
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Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved
#102Fun read about Azure and having 173 agents running a node: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize... Probably just a coincidence that Github started to have issues after beginning their move to Azure at the end of last year.
Azure's going to suffocate github. I'm curious to see what's next. Will self-hosting the code repository come back in vogue or will another social-coding platform take off?
I used to work in a small independent team of 30 people within a large corp, half of which was dev. We used to run our own gitlab on-prem, our CI/CD was also on-prem. It worked perfectly, never had down time, devops guy could configure them on-demand to our needs. Me (and some other guys) also jumped in times to times to help (mostly just ssh into the servers for health check, disk partition, etc.). Then we grew (the biz team, dev was the same) and some new PMs with fancy Ivy League degrees came in and pushed for on-cloud Bitbucket. Things went to shit pretty fast after that ... Our codebase was only a few hundred thousands lines, there was only like hundreds of commits per day, the servers our git + CI/CD lived on never saturated ...
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#103Can't wait for Anthropic's downtime tomorrow
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
My small org has definitely had internal discussions around self-hosting gitlab. We'll see what happens.
If you're actively considering self hosting, I recommend giving forgejo a try. The experience is much more similar to what GitHub offers, actions API is nearly identical to name one similarity of which there are many. Moving essentially becomes one prompt and a coffee later for a small team.
If people are happy with Actions API, that sounds great.
I’m not happy with the Actions API. I think Gitlab’s cicd design is much better, and I’m not fighting it all the time when I use it.
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#105Unbelievable! Just this morning I was thinking to myself, hey Github's due for a downtime soon or they are finally getting their act together.
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#106I noticed earlier this week that my URL bar now pre-fills githubstatus.com instead of github.com when I type "gith"
A browser extension to indicate githubstatus being yellow/red: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/is-github-down/lcfo... A VSCode extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RuslanRy... Firefox: https://github.com/matagus/github-status-checker Caveat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450924 (disclaimer: none of these are recommended by me to use - merely sharing to build on for this dis…
Another useful disclaimer: all of these lets the developers push updates to your computer as they wish by default in most setups, these days you might want to decrease that kind of attack surface and just check the status in the official website when "git push" suddenly stop working. Especially when extensions and stuff sometimes changes hand and it's kind of hard to keep track of it, except for when something bad happens and gets news attention.
I'm also not sure why you'd share links to software you don't even recommend yourself? Isn't it better to just not share that then? I think others could use search engine/LLM too if they need whatever, but most generally expect things shared in the comments here to actually at least have been looked at by the person sharing them.
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#107Fun read about Azure and having 173 agents running a node: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize... Probably just a coincidence that Github started to have issues after beginning their move to Azure at the end of last year.
> Probably just a coincidence that Github started to have issues after beginning their move to Azure at the end of last year.
Right.
I'd like to think that Azure has improved in a meaningful way in the past half a decade or so... but it has not. Maybe less inexplicable 400 errors in random API calls, I guess.
And yet Microsoft keeps posting record growth. Unbelievable.
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#108So what’s stopping you (or your org) from leaving GitHub?
I started the campaign to move us from Bitbucket to Github before the Microsoft acquisition. If I knew MS would be involved, I'd have campaigned for something else. I would never recommend any Microsoft product.
It took ages for us to get permission and licenses. We only recently finished moving the last repos over and shut down Bitbucket.
If AWS offered a product like GH, I could probably unilaterally start moving to that. Any other alternative would take 3-4 years of meetings, budgets, lawyers, and other such nonsense before we could declare we'd left Github.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
You've a tab from 9 days ago open? Maybe you should be closing your tabs more often :p
I have tabs from like 6 months ago. Modern browsers have gotten pretty good at hibernating unused tabs and restore when needed. And this website is extremely light, it gets restored in milliseconds.
I hording my tab in case I need them later (I don't, 99% of the case)
but I always have sense of fear that I might need it someday
Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved
#110Fun read about Azure and having 173 agents running a node: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize... Probably just a coincidence that Github started to have issues after beginning their move to Azure at the end of last year.
Keep in mind the seniority of the author. This was not written by a staff+ engineer.