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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by amelius »

chrisweekly wrote: post #114
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #84

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Git is, but the APIs and all the services they provide around it aren't. That said, I think it's a bit weird that they don't store the data of the services around the code itself in git, like they do with e.g. sites. That way you'd have an `issues` branch that you could still access if github is down. But that would probably pave the way for easy migrations away from Github.

>"But that would probably pave the way for easy migrations away from Github." bingo

At least they could have used the concepts in Git's design. But it seems they didn't learn much from the tool they based their service on.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by 101404 »

_bxg1 wrote: post #149
natfriedman wrote: post #116

Sincere apologies to all GitHub users for the downtime this morning, and the brief outages last week as well. We take reliability very seriously, and will publish a full RCA in the near future.

Well Bitbucket lost all of my repositories this morning so you've got a long way to fall

What do you mean they "lost your repositories"?

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by _bxg1 »

101404 wrote: post #152
_bxg1 wrote: post #149

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Well Bitbucket lost all of my repositories this morning so you've got a long way to fall

What do you mean they "lost your repositories"?

When I tried to log in I was prompted to "upgrade my account" to a "Bitbucket Cloud" account. After doing so, all of my repositories were gone. It seems that my repositories remained on my "Bitbucket ""Regular""" account but that my email address was no longer associated with it, giving me no way of logging in to it. I emailed support 6 hours ago and have yet to get a response.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by behindsight »

tcbasche wrote: post #148
uniformlyrandom wrote: post #145

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Yep, it is Dunning-Kruger effect. If rolling back works for a simple system, why wouldn't it work for a complex one? Because one cannot step into the same river twice. Heraclitus would probably make a good engineering manager.

This is 100% not the Dunning-Kruger effect. How on Earth would it be? edit - from wikipedia: In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is.

Maybe not directly but it could still apply.

I interpreted GP as saying the aforementioned management has just enough cursory knowledge to want to apply the same hammer that worked on a simple system to that on a complex system, but not enough knowledge to realize the unknown-unknowns that they aren't even aware of.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by vraivroo »

dirtydroog wrote: post #146
djsumdog wrote: post #31

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When was the last time BitBucket had an outage? Personally I don't see a lot of difference between the two platforms; or GitLab (my primary now). Github probably has the best UI, but Gitlab's has gotten a lot better; and there are always self hosted solutions like Gogs.

Github's diffs are pretty much instantaneous, Bitbucket just gives up, "now that's a lot of code!". No, it was a one line change actually.

Github will bail on large diffs, too.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by MyelinatedT »

_bxg1 wrote: post #153
101404 wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean they "lost your repositories"?

When I tried to log in I was prompted to "upgrade my account" to a "Bitbucket Cloud" account. After doing so, all of my repositories were gone. It seems that my repositories remained on my "Bitbucket ""Regular""" account but that my email address was no longer associated with it, giving me no way of logging in to it. I emailed support 6 hours ago and have yet to get a response.

Wow Atlassian... That is quite horrifying! Glad I stuck with GitHub through the MS acquisition. Bitbucket was probably my main alternative.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by swyx »

waynenilsen wrote: post #51

Don't forget to check your SLAs Enterprise = 99.95% (quarterly) https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-enterpr... They're having a bad February but January was good. We will see what March has in store

what are the consequences of busting 99.95%? what happens if it is 99.94% vs 19.94%?

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by _bxg1 »

MyelinatedT wrote: post #157
_bxg1 wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I tried to log in I was prompted to "upgrade my account" to a "Bitbucket Cloud" account. After doing so, all of my repositories were gone. It seems that my repositories remained on my "Bitbucket ""Regular""" account but that my email address was no longer associated with it, giving me no way of logging in to it. I emailed support 6 hours ago and have yet to get a response.

Wow Atlassian... That is quite horrifying! Glad I stuck with GitHub through the MS acquisition. Bitbucket was probably my main alternative.

Yep. Luckily I was able to recover the most important one - a website I'd built a couple years ago for a paying client - from Heroku, of all places.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by zenexer »

MyelinatedT wrote: post #157
_bxg1 wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I tried to log in I was prompted to "upgrade my account" to a "Bitbucket Cloud" account. After doing so, all of my repositories were gone. It seems that my repositories remained on my "Bitbucket ""Regular""" account but that my email address was no longer associated with it, giving me no way of logging in to it. I emailed support 6 hours ago and have yet to get a response.

Wow Atlassian... That is quite horrifying! Glad I stuck with GitHub through the MS acquisition. Bitbucket was probably my main alternative.

For the record, Azure DevOps did the same thing to me when we switched over to Azure AD. My account and repositories ended up in an entirely corrupt state. Support was eventually able to resolve most of it, but I’m still discovering problems.
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