It's amazing how often github actually goes down - 90% of the time they don't log it on their uptime / status page - it got so bad at one point I added it to our Nagios monitoring to prove a point to our devs that they shouldn't rely on external services for builds when our internal git(lab) server hasn't gone down once this year.
GitHub Down with a 503
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you and I have a different definition of "production?" GitHub going down impacts your deploys?
If you're using a cloud running test service like Travis CI pushing to GitHub can trigger your whole deployment process starting with running the unit and integration tests.
Now you deploying production hinges on a third party. What if you push a broken build that your tests didn't cover, and GitHub goes down when you have the patch prepared? What if Travis goes down?
Third-party services being in the critical path for applying code to systems is a recipe for outages and other trauma. If it impacts you enough to come to HN and leave the comment I replied to, you're doing it wrong -- there had absolutely better be a failsafe that does not involve GitHub and Travis in your architecture.
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#43Reminds me of the classic bumbling quote: "Why don't they just host GitHub where they host the status page?"
"Why don't they make the whole damn plane out of the black box?"
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#44I was wondering why my `bower install` was failing... :/
Doesn't bower install from a local cache if network request fails? npm on the other hand... per docs at https://github.com/bower/bower oh....
Yeah it does pull from cache, but I didn't have the packaged cached yet.
As for the docs, it is somewhat crazy to think how much documentation is hosted by GitHub these days...
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#46> We are investigating mysql cluster issues.
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#47Haha, I wonder how many of us came here because we couldn't push or pull commits, so just taking a HN reading break... and boom the top post is about Github!
When Github appears down, I come to HN to find out if it's affecting everyone :p
I first check their Twitter account, and then when there's nothing there about an outage (currently isn't), I come here.
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#49It's back!
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#50Somehow I opened the GitHub Status Page subconsciously early this morning, then everything suddenly became 503 in less than 10 minutes!
I still have the tab opened now, saying "All systems operational"...