GitHub: October 21 Incident Report

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Post by pietroalbini » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 8:01 AM UTC

GitHub: October 21 Incident Report
blog.github.com

Re: GitHub: October 21 Incident Report

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 10:09 AM UTC

It would be interested to know what was the cause of the network partition failure.

Re: GitHub: October 21 Incident Report

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Post by jbb67 » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 10:17 AM UTC

Ugh I detest the term " abundance of caution " as used in that message. Weasel words designed to stop you thinking about the problem as who wouldn't want them to be overly cautious

Re: GitHub: October 21 Incident Report

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Post by k_ » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 10:22 AM UTC

Also discussed there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271180

Re: GitHub: October 21 Incident Report

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Post by vqng » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 10:44 AM UTC

> During this time, information displayed on GitHub.com is likely to appear out of date;

if the new data is not presented, users will typically retry which may result in duplicated new content.

Re: GitHub: October 21 Incident Report

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Post by nik736 » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 11:03 AM UTC

I don't understand why code hosting platforms like GitHub, GitLab or BitBucket have so many issues regularly. Is there anything special about it?

Re: GitHub: October 21 Incident Report

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Post by redwood » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 11:04 AM UTC

nik736 wrote: post #6

I don't understand why code hosting platforms like GitHub, GitLab or BitBucket have so many issues regularly. Is there anything special about it?

I suspect it's just that you hear about them all

Re: GitHub: October 21 Incident Report

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Post by rashthedude » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 11:04 AM UTC

vqng wrote: post #5

> During this time, information displayed on GitHub.com is likely to appear out of date; if the new data is not presented, users will typically retry which may result in duplicated new content.

Happened to me already. Created a new branch but it kept me informing me the non-existence, retried a few times and shortly after was created with a bunch of duplicates.

Re: GitHub: October 21 Incident Report

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Post by madeofpalk » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 11:05 AM UTC

nik736 wrote: post #6

I don't understand why code hosting platforms like GitHub, GitLab or BitBucket have so many issues regularly. Is there anything special about it?

It’s hard.

But really, do they have that many problems?

Re: GitHub: October 21 Incident Report

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Post by NL807 » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 11:09 AM UTC

nik736 wrote: post #6

I don't understand why code hosting platforms like GitHub, GitLab or BitBucket have so many issues regularly. Is there anything special about it?

Define regularly.

I can recall only 2 incidents this year. I think that's not too bad considering the level of traffic they have to contend with.