My github windows GUI just crashed. Looks like the devs didn't consider suboptimal network conditions.
GitHub had connectivity problems
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#12Guys, what's the purpose to attack a service like Github?!
Proof that you can take down a service as large and as well connected a Github perhaps.
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#13All these ideas like "let's fetch our deps directly from github" sound good until github is not down.
Yeh it's definitely preferable to have one of the two developers your small startup can probably afford spending a good portion of their time rolling out, securing and maintaining your own infrastructure
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#14All these ideas like "let's fetch our deps directly from github" sound good until github is not down.
You have to fetch them from somewhere. If you are fetching deps from multiple sources, there is a much higher chance of at least one source being down.
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#15Title should be "Github _is_ under DDoS and having connectivity problems"
edit: TIL my English wasn't as good as I thought.
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#16All these ideas like "let's fetch our deps directly from github" sound good until github is not down.
That applies to an in-house solution as well.
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#17Well that's me not able to work.
If only git were a distributed version control
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#18Totally speculation, but maybe related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10115641
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#19China!
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#20Title should be "Github _is_ under DDoS and having connectivity problems" edit: TIL my English wasn't as good as I thought.
That's subjective. In America companies tend to be referred to as singular entities, but in the UK they would be referred to as plural. Neither is wrong, just different idioms.