GitHub Down Again? • Hacker News Board

What is the reason for this spate of outages? GitHub is a mature, stable product. What core features could its engineers possibly need to be working on that whatever they did broke core backend functionality so badly?

Re: GitHub Down Again?

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Post by nathanaldensr » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 1:07 PM UTC

cr3ative wrote: post #8

It's having a moment.

One of many.

Re: GitHub Down Again?

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Post by JOnAgain » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 1:10 PM UTC

What is even the point? https://www.githubstatus.com/

Save money by just not having the page or the people pretending they do something useful by maintaining it.

Re: GitHub Down Again?

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Post by xyst » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 1:12 PM UTC

WreckItRob wrote: post #10

Seems to be up for me

same here

Re: GitHub Down Again?

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Post by gtirloni » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 1:13 PM UTC

JOnAgain wrote: post #16

What is even the point? https://www.githubstatus.com/ Save money by just not having the page or the people pretending they do something useful by maintaining it.

"operational" comes with strings attached. We don't know what internal SLAs specify but most likely the service is meeting those agreements.

Should we get a refund? :)

Re: GitHub Down Again?

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Post by Karunamon » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 1:14 PM UTC

JOnAgain wrote: post #16

What is even the point? https://www.githubstatus.com/ Save money by just not having the page or the people pretending they do something useful by maintaining it.

I know over on AWS they are loath to update the status page since this is tied to SLA compensation. Does github have the same problem?

Re: GitHub Down Again?

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Post by garciasn » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 1:20 PM UTC

MontyCarloHall wrote: post #14

Yes, still having hiccups for me. I started having issues about 24 hours ago. What is the reason for this spate of outages? GitHub is a mature, stable product. What core features could its engineers possibly need to be working on that whatever they did broke core backend functionality so badly?

Once Tableau was acquired by Salesforce, shit that had been stable as can be for YEARS started to break as Tableau (I assume) began to interface with SF systems or requirements. Last week, CLI functionality was down for 3-4 days, depending on the cluster you're on. Nothing like crushing production reporting for a week at the end of the month because Salesforce wants X, Y, and Z added to a mature product that had seen no issues for the 3 years prior.

My guess is that is the same sort of thing happening here w/Microsoft.