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Re: GitHub Having Issues

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Post by stuff4ben »

vexcaustic wrote: post #2

Let's hope they didn't push faulty DNS records :D But seriously, what's going on with all the service disruptions? From slack to all of facebook to GitHub (who had 7 incidents in September). Maybe centralizing the whole internet into a few providers isn't a good idea after all?

Running services at scale is hard! And having everything in the cloud does put all of your eggs in a single basket. Also having all on-prem, home-built stuff is the same problem (eg. Facebook). Hybrid cloud solutions should help somewhat with impact when a service provider goes down, hopefully you can shunt your services locally and isolate yourself from the problem. But I doubt anyone is really doing that at scale either.

Re: GitHub Having Issues

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Post by stuff4ben »

hivacruz wrote: post #6

I thought I have started too many workflows in a short time and got temporarily restricted! By the way, just discovered a nice library to test GitHub Actions locally: https://github.com/nektos/act

Nice find there with Act! I've always hated the dev/test flow with GHA.

Re: GitHub Having Issues

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Post by rvz »

simzor wrote: post #3
vexcaustic wrote: post #2

Let's hope they didn't push faulty DNS records :D But seriously, what's going on with all the service disruptions? From slack to all of facebook to GitHub (who had 7 incidents in September). Maybe centralizing the whole internet into a few providers isn't a good idea after all?

Haha. To be fair GitHub has had a lot of issues that last few months though.

You're not wrong about this... [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28130251

Just don't go 'all in' on one service without backups or some second plan.

Re: GitHub Having Issues

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Post by frupert52 »

bombcar wrote: post #10
RapperWhoMadeIt wrote: post #5

I literally set up some GitHub actions today for the first time in my life, I was really pumped about getting into the CI/CD game with my latest open repository. A couple of hours ago everything was going great, running a workflow needed maybe 40 seconds max. Now, they are not running at all. That all happened while I was thinkering with the yaml workflow file, so the disruption of the service made me believe that it…

Think of the poor grandma yesterday who was finally convinced to get a Facebook account to see the grandkids and right as she hits "create account" Facebook goes down worldwide. No force on earth will convince her she didn't do it.

Then the next day she finally gets around to setting up her GitHub actions and this happens.

Now gran really thinks something is up

Re: GitHub Having Issues

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Post by dijit »

vexcaustic wrote: post #2

Let's hope they didn't push faulty DNS records :D But seriously, what's going on with all the service disruptions? From slack to all of facebook to GitHub (who had 7 incidents in September). Maybe centralizing the whole internet into a few providers isn't a good idea after all?

> Maybe centralizing the whole internet into a few providers isn't a good idea after all?

Everything's tradeoffs, economies of scale for centralising- easy to blame the provider if a fuckup happens.

But when it goes down it stops everything; same issue with AWS, Azure's ADFS, Cloudflare, ad infinitum. Half the internet can go away at a moments notice or the provider can turn on you personally because an automated bot dislikes your username and decides to blacklist your company.

(is my bias showing?)

Anyway, Late September/Early October is rife with outages for as long as we've been running internet services.

People speculate that it's the influx of new sysadmins/programmers, but that's debated.

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