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Re: GitHub is once again down

#12

Post by serf »

rvz wrote: post #4

GitHub goes down at least once a week as I said before. [0] thanks to Copilot, Tay.ai and Zoe chatbots wrecking the platform instead of humans maintaining it. If there was a prediction market for when GitHub experiences an outage every week, then you would make a lot of money. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487881

>GitHub goes down at least once a week as I said before. [0] thanks to Copilot, Tay.ai and Zoe chatbots wrecking the platform instead of humans.

there are tens of thousands of stupid scripts hosted on github itself that have scheduled progmatic pushes or pulls to repos via cron jobs with millions and millions of users -- yeah LLMs accelerate the fire but let's not pretend that GH was some bastion of real-user-dom somehow at some point.

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by abound »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #7
ahstilde wrote: post #6

github is at one nine, basically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428035

9% ? /s (though To be honest I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if things go down so bad too at this point either)

Unironically, I think 9% uptime would be "one-tenth of a nine".

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by mememememememo »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #7
ahstilde wrote: post #6

github is at one nine, basically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428035

9% ? /s (though To be honest I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if things go down so bad too at this point either)

90% would be one 9 following the sequence back.

99.99

99.90

99.00

90.00

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by brookst »

abound wrote: post #14
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

9% ? /s (though To be honest I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if things go down so bad too at this point either)

Unironically, I think 9% uptime would be "one-tenth of a nine".

Are you saying 9.999% isn’t four nines?

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by altairprime »

voidfunc wrote: post #11
steeleduncan wrote: post #10

What has changed at GitHub to cause this?

Azure

> Azure

To explain this one-word comment for those unfamiliar, see previously:

GitHub will prioritize migrating to Azure over feature development (5 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517173

In particular:

> GitHub has recently seen more outages, in part because its central data center in Virginia is indeed resource-constrained and running into scaling issues. AI agents are part of the problem here. But it’s our understanding that some GitHub employees are concerned about this migration because GitHub’s MySQL clusters, which form the backbone of the service and run on bare metal servers, won’t easily make the move to Azure and lead to even more outages going forward.

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by corvad »

mememememememo wrote: post #13
corvad wrote: post #8

And this is why I self host a lot of my Git stack with Gerrit...

Or just make sure you git fetch repos into $other-place. That helps with Git not so much issues etc.

Yeah, I think especially Git mirrors can go a long too for maintaining availability and also for reducing load off main infra.
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