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GitHub incident: 2022/03/24

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Re: GitHub incident: 2022/03/24

#11
After this latest incident I brought it up to my company that we should start considering alternatives if this situation doesn't improve. From an outsiders perspective, it looks like all the new features they recently introduced seem to be crippling their databases.

Microsoft needs to get a grip on this situation as the parent company. Their golden goose acquisition is about to become persona non grata if these outages continue.

Re: GitHub incident: 2022/03/24

#12
post #10

https://www.githubstatus.com/ at the time of posting, webhooks and actions are still struggling :( there have now been 23 incident outages in 90 days. if anyone from Microsoft is reading this, you need to start considering this degradation as the companies highest priority. At this point, Gitea, Gitlab and others (self hosted or otherwise) are beginning to gain traction as a more reliable and performant alternative.…

Isn't that basically what happened to Skype? Microsoft paid $8.5B for Skype when it was on top of the world, and now I don't know a single person who uses it.

Re: GitHub incident: 2022/03/24

#13
After the incident yesterday I sent an email to GH sales to talk about moving to on-prem enterprise so we don't have to go down with the rest of the boat.

Still waiting on that callback/reply. Starting to wonder if Microsoft even wants our money anymore.

Re: GitHub incident: 2022/03/24

#15
post #5

How does GitLab compare in terms of it's CI/CD reliability?

I’m a big fan of GitHub Actions so take this with that in mind. GitLab (self-hosted) is very reliable however GitLab CI/CD is very different in design to GitHub Actions: it’s much more a bunch of shell scripts stuck together with YAML. Personally, I’d never go back (unless they redesign it).

Re: GitHub incident: 2022/03/24

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post #10

https://www.githubstatus.com/ at the time of posting, webhooks and actions are still struggling :( there have now been 23 incident outages in 90 days. if anyone from Microsoft is reading this, you need to start considering this degradation as the companies highest priority. At this point, Gitea, Gitlab and others (self hosted or otherwise) are beginning to gain traction as a more reliable and performant alternative.…

> At this point, Gitea, Gitlab and others (self hosted or otherwise) are beginning to gain traction as a more reliable and performant alternative.

Well there you go. The lesson is to not go 'all in' or 'centralize everything' on GitHub, which is what everyone was doing and why it has now become increasingly unreliable as I predicted, years ago in the long run. [0]

Perhaps it is time to self-host then?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

Re: GitHub incident: 2022/03/24

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post #12
post #10

https://www.githubstatus.com/ at the time of posting, webhooks and actions are still struggling :( there have now been 23 incident outages in 90 days. if anyone from Microsoft is reading this, you need to start considering this degradation as the companies highest priority. At this point, Gitea, Gitlab and others (self hosted or otherwise) are beginning to gain traction as a more reliable and performant alternative.…

Isn't that basically what happened to Skype? Microsoft paid $8.5B for Skype when it was on top of the world, and now I don't know a single person who uses it.

They got patent trolled and flinched. They removed the things that made Skype best in class and turned it into just another low quality corporate messenger.

Re: GitHub incident: 2022/03/24

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post #5

How does GitLab compare in terms of it's CI/CD reliability?

i honestly prefer gitlab to github wrt CI/CD -- but i'm biased, i have ~4y of gitlab ci/cd usage, while i've only been using github for 6mo.

gitlab feels easier to use, easier to write and i prefer the interface.

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