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Re: GitHub is down

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Post by sureshn » Tue, Apr 05, 2016, 9:53 AM UTC

kchoudhu wrote: post #6

If only we had a version control system that didn't rely on a central hub...

its better to use fossil locally and have a mirror sync to github to run in the background. Its sad that git being distributed and github being a central place , sort of undermines the very purpose git was built for

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Apr 05, 2016, 9:54 AM UTC

akerro wrote: post #79

zodiakzz wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And so are my free private repositories on Bitbucket. :)

and my two independent gitlab instances.

And my local copies of all dependencies I use.

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by mserdarsanli » Tue, Apr 05, 2016, 9:55 AM UTC

Phew, I can't develop anymore but http://left-pad.io/ is still up so my systems continue operating.

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Apr 05, 2016, 9:57 AM UTC

kuschku wrote: post #105

Sir_Substance wrote: post #31

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Depends how his deployment pipeline is plumbed in. If he's dependent on Travis for builds (for example), he can't just switch.

Depending on services from others for your own business without having a SLA is just a disaster waiting to happen. Along the lines of "two is one, one is none", anything that you don’t own or where you don’t have a SLA has to be considered not existing for a business.

"Move fast and break things." Including your own bones.

People are getting too spoiled by perceived reliability. Internet is not electricity yet. And especially third-party services on the Internet.

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Apr 05, 2016, 9:59 AM UTC

jbrooksuk wrote: post #45

Sir_Substance wrote: post #29

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You can host your own.

Which can go down too.

With enough copies you can push the probability of all of them going down simultaneously to arbitrarily low levels.

Or at least down to "fuck, the power grid went out" levels.

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Apr 05, 2016, 10:01 AM UTC

zdkl wrote: post #66

tankenmate wrote: post #54

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Panama Papers anyone?

If only someone started selling tinfoil hats with "I told you so" logos.

Ask the http://shieldheadwear.com/ guys. They actually managed to kickstart stylish tinfoil hats...

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Apr 05, 2016, 10:02 AM UTC

touristtam wrote: post #47

starefossen wrote: post #18

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I guess you will get what you pay for... which is nothing for most of their users.

Ok, but I thought the business model here was to be the facebook of code repository. And I don't see the later suffering as many outage as the former (maybe because I am not all day long on FB, mind).

Because people aren't DDOSing Facebook by telling their CI servers to constantly refetch all the dependencies every goddamn build.

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by devsonfire » Tue, Apr 05, 2016, 10:03 AM UTC

final status - https://twitter.com/Insping/status/717271742964568065

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by akerro » Tue, Apr 05, 2016, 10:04 AM UTC

rootlocus wrote: post #110

akerro wrote: post #79

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and my two independent gitlab instances.

I'm guessing your gitlab instances see as many visitors as SourceForge

That's why I call it private.

Re: GitHub is down

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Post by maccard » Tue, Apr 05, 2016, 10:05 AM UTC

akerro wrote: post #76

maccard wrote: post #71

The common complaint is that when github goes down so do issue trackers/project management/docs etc. What are the equivalent alternatives for these systems that are distributed, so tolerant to downtime. If you are in a situation that you're using a DVCS but relying on centralised everything else, and saying that you're unable to work because your Issue tracker/CI server is down, have you really gained anything over t…

You can setup gitlab with clones, if one server goes down, second has a copy. You know, git is a distributed system, unlike github.

> You know, git is a distributed system, unlike github.

Thanks for the snark. I know git is a distributed system. My question was about everything else being down (your issue tracker, CI server, wiki/documentation), not about git itself.