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Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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Post by jannes »

jrumbut wrote: post #94
ahstilde wrote: post #77

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yup! When i did an analysis last month, GitHub is up 89.3% on weekdays and 96.5% on weekends. Incidents touch 62% of weekdays and 11% of weekends. Claude shows the same pattern: 92.5% weekday, 97.8% weekend. Tuesday through Thursday is the danger zone. Sunday is practically a different service. https://www.aakash.io/tech-chase/github-and-claude-are-down-...

I had an occasion recently where I was working a lot of late nights/early mornings with AI use. And I'd be getting these instant, beautiful responses, and then, as soon as the sun started coming in the windows, it would take longer and fail more, and by the time the clock struck 9 AM, every LLM had turned back into a pumpkin.

Are you saying US data centers idle in the night rather than serving European/Asian users?

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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Post by zemo »

jannes wrote: post #151
jrumbut wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had an occasion recently where I was working a lot of late nights/early mornings with AI use. And I'd be getting these instant, beautiful responses, and then, as soon as the sun started coming in the windows, it would take longer and fail more, and by the time the clock struck 9 AM, every LLM had turned back into a pumpkin.

Are you saying US data centers idle in the night rather than serving European/Asian users?

ideally european/asian users would hit european/asian servers, so potentially not surprising

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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Post by linsomniac »

vtbassmatt wrote: post #146
linsomniac wrote: post #101

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>not intellectually curious or open This checks out. I once was at a conference where they (Azure) had a giant booth. A fairly well known person in the community brings me over to talk to his manager who is working the booth. "We should hire him, he's really smart." Within a minute of talking to this manager he says "You're a Linux guy? We do Windows." and physically turns away from me, conversation over. You know, f…

Wait, is this Azure or GitHub who had the booth? If it was GitHub, I’m super confused and there must have been some serious missing context. I was at GitHub from 2020-2023 and am not aware of _any_ Windows usage in the service. The only meaningful Windows footprint was for client dev (`gh`, GitHub Desktop, etc.) and even there, Windows was the exception. Service side is all Linux; most engineers worked from a Mac. If…

Sorry about the ambiguity: I was replying to the Azure part, this was a Azure booth.

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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Post by jorl17 »

u_fucking_dork wrote: post #61

Every time one of these vibe coded meme sites gets posted there’re endless comments about how it’s not actually because of load, the GitHub team is shit, their tech stack is shit, Microsoft is shit, Azure is shit, etc. Just compare the GitHub status page for public GitHub vs the enterprise cloud pages. Enterprise has much better numbers and I’ve personally can’t remember the last time there was an outage that prevent…

Ironically, I am in this very moment incapable of creating threads in PRs within my org because of a GH bug. It's on their status page, too.

I can reply to an existing thread, just not create a new one.

How does something like this even slip by?...and why has it been like this for an hour?

EDIT: Oh, good, the issue should be solved in the next 3 or 4 hours. How lovely of them.

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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Post by holman »

ornornor wrote: post #130
netule wrote: post #129

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Oof, that’s rough, especially considering that GitHub used to be a Linux shop. I wonder what happened to all the Rails folks who built the OG platform.

They’re happy and vested probably :)

Happy and definitely gone, haha. Not my circus not my monkeys.

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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Post by k_roy »

michaelcampbell wrote: post #124
u_fucking_dork wrote: post #61

Every time one of these vibe coded meme sites gets posted there’re endless comments about how it’s not actually because of load, the GitHub team is shit, their tech stack is shit, Microsoft is shit, Azure is shit, etc. Just compare the GitHub status page for public GitHub vs the enterprise cloud pages. Enterprise has much better numbers and I’ve personally can’t remember the last time there was an outage that prevent…

> I’ve personally can’t remember the last time there was an outage that prevented me from doing work. You and I are in different domains. It's not daily, but I can't remember the last time I (in my company) went a week WITHOUT having to workaround some outage. Perhaps semantics, but I can "do work" through most of them, but that work isn't getting built or deployed in the same time frame it would have been had the ou…

It's weekly for me. And that's just with PRs, not even builders. I can't imagine if I relied on their runners.
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