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Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
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Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#142Github has published some incredible usage rate increase numbers, which they ascribe to the rise of agentic coding. At some point, they are going to have to change rate limits, cut free-tier usage, or find some other path to reducing load. It's clear that their infrastructure can't keep up with this significant increase, and it's unlikely that they're going to just absorb the increased costs themselves. Very curious…
IMO, they're reaching the point of no return. I don't think they can horizontally-scale their way out of the hole they dug themselves unless they separate their free and paid infra maybe... which doesn't seem likely considering how their other infra changes are going. In the same way you need to be 10x better for someone to consider switching to your product, if you get 10x worse your competitors get a free 10x by ju…
I wonder if AWS resurrecting CodeCommit might be related. "For all of our warts, we still have a higher rep score than github" would not be an extraordinary thought at this point. There has been some brief chat about looking to github, and I'm so glad we never did. A previous company did migrate to github with no real answers on what the benefit was other than investors ask if your code is in github by name vs some other repo.
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#143Is Git decentralized?
Yes. But in practice people need their `if any_tasks_failed: throw error` (“CI”) to be in the cloud and have three nines of uptime.
Personally (but who am I) I don’t need to check whether my changes work on Windows 7 and SunOS in order to continue on a project most of the time.
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#144Edit: the status page is still all green for today, but the incident is there.
pre-edit: They just removed the incident and set the status page to all green as of 10:01 PT???
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#145Github has 84.92% uptime in the last 90 days according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses I don't know how this is even remotely close to acceptable.
Hey there's a nine in there, so it's fine!
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#146I keep wondering what causing such a bad service from GH lately, is it the overuse of AI generated code? Are they trying to cut costs with the infrastructure?
Everyone producing magnitude more code with AI agents. Numbers from GH COO here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878
So why aren't we seeing an explosion in feature shipping rate, or tech startups?
If there is so much extra code, where is it going? Is everyone just creating giant piles of throwaway slop?
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
For literally decades, I’ve observed that there are systems that make each operation cheap and systems that work hard to scale out. The former frequently seems to wildly outperform the latter. GitHub, for example, seems to implement the main repository /pulls page as a search query, which is hinted at by the prefilled search bar and was mostly confirmed last week when the search backend failed and pull requests didn’…
I think you need to broaden your focus here - I can't really remember any significant downtime before the Microsoft acquisition and the data supports my memories. Microsoft bought Github and migrated to Azure, which is explains the findings. The query performance was fine before they started serving from Azure. I mean honestly, as though there isn't one single person competent enough to read some logs and horizontall…
I don't know why this is downvoted. The data backs you up: https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#148Github has 84.92% uptime in the last 90 days according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses I don't know how this is even remotely close to acceptable.
It isn't. Lots of unacceptable things going on these days and everyone seems to be accepting them just fine.
Guarantee enterprises with SLAs aren't accepting them
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#149Edit: the status page is still all green for today, but the incident is there. pre-edit: They just removed the incident and set the status page to all green as of 10:01 PT???
They're trying to make it seem like it's not below 95% uptime really hard, so that might be the KPI they're trying to uphold.
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#150I have been writing lots of code lately And I still only have local git repository. I do not like why git doesn't have a built in bug or issue tracker and a kanban board or something. I wished Git and Fossil hybrid should have won. I thought about using fossil many times but it seems codex and claude have deeper integration with git. I don't like installing software which keeps growing into infinite feature Monster.…
"I thought about using fossil many times but it seems codex and claude have deeper integration with git."
Don't let "agentic" "coding" be the reason to avoid fossil.
Fossil and other VCS are much easier for humans to use than Git is; there's no reason to have an LLM burning up tokens and the environment to do tasks you'd do yourself quickly and correctly.