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Re: GitHub's down?

#22
post #4

https://status.github.com/messages >Today >11:32 UTC "We're seeing high error rates on github.com and are investigating". >11:40 UTC "We're doing emergency maintenance to recover the site".

Just noticed an interesting design decision on that page. An 'everything OK' message once a day. One way to push previous downtime below the fold of the page.

Re: GitHub's down?

#26

For everyone who is currently loosing productivity, perhaps your time might be well spent reviewing `git daemon`: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Git-Daemon

Or setup Gitlab for bigger teams, they even offer a Docker image.

Re: GitHub's down?

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post #15
post #6

To me, that looks like an angry unicorn ... does that mean it's another DDoS? It would also be interesting to track loss of productivity in the software engineering professions when GitHub is down. Is this a single point of failure for your company?

Not just for a company, but for developer productivity in general, professional or not... Think of all the package managers that pull straight from Github repos as part of their installation processes..

Exactly ... we've got Ansible scripts that do that. One of the current Java rockstars (not my description), Adam Bien, recommends pulling the source code for all third-party dependencies to build them locally and put them in a local repository. I suppose you can push directly back upstream to avoid having an extra step.

Re: GitHub's down?

#29
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

perhaps a good time to reconsider depending on a third party for your important services to deploy?

Yes, but these decisions aren't under me plus setting up a github kind of thing is way too time consuming with all the features that we're used to now.

Understandable, but surely the potential disruption if github was to go down for a long time or indefinitely would be more than setting up a local git server that you control?
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