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Thing is, runtime dependencies on Github is something that Github is promoting and selling now ( https://github.com/marketplace/ ). Maybe this incident puts that value proposition in a more visceral context.
How is the GitHub marketplace a runtime dependency? Code review, project management, build bots or whatever else should NOT affect the availability of your website.
1. No matter what 99.99999999% availability a service provides, its utterly useless if the time to get back up is unacceptable.
2. Do not have remote services, which you cannot fully control to be a part of your run time deployments.
Wow. Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is an enemy action.
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In 1998 There's a big difference between what a high-capacity/availability site had to handle in 1998 and 20 years later. There are also lots of easy criticisms one can level at github, given their uptime and what they've published about their architecture. 'What they're doing is fairly simple' is probably not among them.
It was not a criticism so much as "well, it will be interesting to see what went wrong." My bet is a human.
What do people do to get around this? Run my own git server like the good 'ol days? Github has become a central source of failure for us now...
Such incidents remind me of 2 things 1. No matter what 99.99999999% availability a service provides, its utterly useless if the time to get back up is unacceptable. 2. Do not have remote services, which you cannot fully control to be a part of your run time deployments.
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Thing is, runtime dependencies on Github is something that Github is promoting and selling now ( https://github.com/marketplace/ ). Maybe this incident puts that value proposition in a more visceral context.
How is the GitHub marketplace a runtime dependency? Code review, project management, build bots or whatever else should NOT affect the availability of your website.
If Github being down means you're not fixing your site today, I'd call it a runtime dependency.
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They offer a local instance of GitHub actually.
Which I can't imagine to be any more reliable than hosted GitHub. But hey, I guess there's the comfort in know that when it goes down it's our fault!