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Re: GitHub is down again

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Gitlab.com. CI is super nice and easily self hostable.

I heard that it's hard to maintain self-hosted Gitlab instances

Not really. About average in terms of infrastructure maintenance. Have been running our orgs instance for 5 years or so, half that time with premium and half the time with just the open source version, running on kubernetes... ran it in AWS at first, then migrated to our own infrastructure.

Re: GitHub is down again

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post #136
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Github lost at least one 9, if not two, since last year's "existential" migration to Azure.

Is there any reason why Github needs 99.99% uptime? You can continue working with your local repo.

Many teams work exclusively in GitHub (ticketing, boards, workflows, dev builds). People also have entire production build systems on GitHub. There's a lot more than git repo hosting.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Has anyone noticed that in the past year we have seen a LOT of outages?

Yes. Feels like every other week.

That goes against all the gushing posts about how AI is great. I use all the frontier models and sure they're a bit helpful

But I don't understand if they're that good why are we getting an outage every other week? AWS had an outage unsolved for about 9+ hrs!

Re: GitHub is down again

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Is there any reason why Github needs 99.99% uptime? You can continue working with your local repo.

Are you kidding? I need my code to pass CI, and get reviewed, so I can move on, otherwise the PRs just keep piling. You might as well say the lights could go out, you can do paperwork.

> otherwise the PRs just keep piling

Good news! You can't create new PRs right now anyway, so they won't pile.

Re: GitHub is down again

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You can literally watch GitHub explode bit by bit. Take a look at the GitHub Status History; it's hilarious: https://www.githubstatus.com/history .

You know what I think would reverse the trend? More vibe coding!

I know you are joking but I'm sure that there is at least one director or VP inside GitHub pushing a new salvation project that must use AI to solve all the problems, when actually the most likely reason is engineers are drawing in tech debt.

Re: GitHub is down again

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That pink "Unicorn!" joke is something that should be reconsidered. When your services are down you're probably causing a lot of people a lot of stress ; I don't think it's the time to be cute and funny about it. EDIT: my bad, seems to be their server's name.

That stupid "Aww, Snap!" message I think it's one of the browsers does.
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