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Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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As the person in charge of one such page, I’d like to take the opportunity to remind folks that many— if not most—of these status pages are hand-updated, and most bosses absolutely hate anyone having to update them to anything but green.

Sounds like an anti-pattern or SLA dodge to me.

Sometimes, but sometimes it’s just a precaution against automatic false alarms causing a huge panic.

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.

> And I’m the head of engineering at my company. Haha! Happy to see impostor syndrome goes all the way to the top of the hierarchy.

Something that I've found that helps me with impostor syndrome is to read and talk about it.

Check out this Ted talk from the co-founder of Atlassian.

https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_cannon_brookes_how_you_can_us...

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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I feel sympathy for all the engs at companies I've implemented CI/CD based on Gh Actions in recent years. It's not like I didn't tell them that Github showed to be somewhat unreliable in the recent years and in contrast to their claim "it's just the build pipeline, not the product" I think it is a horrible incident if you're not able to deploy to production and have barely any ad-hoc backup. I'm always evangelizing A…

Tradeoffs and tolerances need to be considered.

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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post #127

I noticed Github's OIDC token changed about a half an hour ago. Security incident?

They added a second token on Tuesday: https://github.blog/changelog/2023-06-27-github-actions-upda...

I never got that memo. Found out when it broke something.

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.

I hope you are not contributing production code.

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like an anti-pattern or SLA dodge to me.

Sometimes, but sometimes it’s just a precaution against automatic false alarms causing a huge panic.

See, I prefer panic. People don't pay enough attention to systems as it is. May just yeet together a bunch of parts and never bother to learn to actually troubleshoot or maintain, or reason through things.
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