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Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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At what point are organisations going to ask themselves wether this is intentional or not. Your velocity is disrupted by a likely competitor. I'd move out.

I don’t have an opinion on it is or not but layoffs do have a significant impact on that and it’s generally something that’s pretty impossible to study.

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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A true global company doesn't have off hours.

As someone who runs one of the most global APIs in the world, I promise you, I do in fact sleep

Everyone employed by your company, who work in the same industry stops and starts working at the same time, all around the world?

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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Once again, just two days ago [0], the whole of GitHub went down, after the RSA key leakage and the certificate key expiry on its user facing site. It is also apparent that GitHub Actions has chronically been struggling to operate normally for at least once a month for years. There is no question that GitHub has been more unreliable than if you were to use a self-hosted GitLab or Gittea instance yourself as I said be…

Gittea is great but it doesn't replace GHA, only the rest of GitHub.

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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Bugs are a function of change, not a function of maturity. Just because they can have people come in on weekends to fix things doesn’t mean they like doing that. I know many “mature” software platforms that do not deploy on Fridays or off hours at all

A true global company doesn't have off hours.

Less "on" hours then? Even Google has diurnal patterns when there's a lower amount of traffic simply due to the fact that humans are unevenly distributed across the Earth's surface. And Google does code freezes for the holidays where they don't deploy at all.

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

#25
how is it in just five years microsoft has managed to pedal this once vibrant and bustling community of developers and creatives into a roaring dumpster fire of sketcky GPL breaking copilot AI and endless seemingly random outages.

https://www.githubstatus.com/history

github has had 55 outages in 3 months. thats nearly an outage every two days.

the last six months of 2022 had 74 outages. In many shops thats tangibly worse than what their local greybeard Linux admin maintains.

arguments against spinning up my own gitlab/gitea/jenkins/whatever in podman under systemd are starting to ring pretty hollow lately.

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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A true global company doesn't have off hours.

As someone who runs one of the most global APIs in the world, I promise you, I do in fact sleep

What's your pager rotation like? I want to say you have follows-the-sun, and so your on-call shifts are 12-hours long and you swap with a team on the other side of the world from you so you can get said sleep, but I don't want to just assume that.

Re: GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

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As someone who runs one of the most global APIs in the world, I promise you, I do in fact sleep

Everyone employed by your company, who work in the same industry stops and starts working at the same time, all around the world?

No, but my team owns our own APIs. We are all located in the same area and we go oncall for our service.
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