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Re: BitBucket was down

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While I don't have anything smart to say about stuff like this, I'd love to see their postmortem on this one. Would be somewhat hilarious if it's another bad configuration push across their infrastructure. Github has had so many of them and especially with the recent article of the stock brokerage firm going bankrupt due to bad configuration/code push.

A firm going bankrupt due to a bad code/config? Do you have a link to the article you're referring to? Sounds interesting...

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Re: BitBucket was down

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post #8

While I don't have anything smart to say about stuff like this, I'd love to see their postmortem on this one. Would be somewhat hilarious if it's another bad configuration push across their infrastructure. Github has had so many of them and especially with the recent article of the stock brokerage firm going bankrupt due to bad configuration/code push.

I doubt they are pushing new configuration at 6am on a Sunday morning.

I doubted that Github would push new (bad) production code mid-day unannounced, and it still happened. To be fair, Github I think pushes new production code several times a day every day?

Re: BitBucket was down

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post #18
post #8

While I don't have anything smart to say about stuff like this, I'd love to see their postmortem on this one. Would be somewhat hilarious if it's another bad configuration push across their infrastructure. Github has had so many of them and especially with the recent article of the stock brokerage firm going bankrupt due to bad configuration/code push.

A firm going bankrupt due to a bad code/config? Do you have a link to the article you're referring to? Sounds interesting...

A reference to Knight Capital Group, most likely.

Re: BitBucket was down

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A firm going bankrupt due to a bad code/config? Do you have a link to the article you're referring to? Sounds interesting...

$400 million down the drain http://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-cautiona...

Wow! Bookmarking that one. What a great cautionary tale both for developers and devops. I may well need to use that as a teaching aide. Though a security principle, I cannot tell you how many times I have to point of the need for defense in depth in the design of software.

Re: BitBucket was down

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The uptime for GitHub for 2013 was 99.69%, according to http://www.getapp.com/compare/source-code-management-softwar... . I can't find a stat for BitBucket, does anyone know? I'm considering switiching to GitHub for a private repo I'm currently hosting on BB, due to downtime.

Bitbucket's downtime is pretty much the same as Github's.

I use it at work and my team pushes to it approximately 40-50 times a day. In the last year the total amount of downtime I've experienced has been 4-8 hours. I pointed out the lack of downtime history to one of the guys when they asked if we could move to stash because we experienced 15 minutes down time twice in two days. (Also should point out we've experienced 10-24 hours downtime on our internal Jenkins so far this year)

It's just when you do experience downtime it feels really bad.

Re: BitBucket was down

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt they are pushing new configuration at 6am on a Sunday morning.

I doubted that Github would push new (bad) production code mid-day unannounced, and it still happened. To be fair, Github I think pushes new production code several times a day every day?

If you are pushing new configuration at 6am on a Sunday, and things immediately stop working, you revert the configuration change.

Re: BitBucket was down

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post #27

Why are they not hosting it on the status.bitbucket.org server? Tt have never been down as far as I know!

status.bitbucket.org is hosted on Statuspage.io.

It would be rather silly to host your status page on your main production infrastructure since if it goes down so does your status page.

Personally unless you're a major player I think you should always outsource your status page.

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