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GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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windward wrote: post #160
dijksterhuis wrote: post #135

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> I've felt like its a little unfair to judge the uptime of company platforms like this; by saying "if any feature at all is down, its all down" and then translating that into 9s for the platform. This is definitely true. At the same time, none of the individual services has hit 3x9 uptime in the last 90 days [0], which is their Enterprise SLA [1] ... > "Uptime" is the percentage of total possible minutes the applica…

So what happens for those enterprise customers now? Is there a meaningful fallout when these services fail to meet their SLAs?

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Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

franktankbank wrote: post #167
imglorp wrote: post #105

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Yes, true, but at least the fire won't spread through this one point. Hopefully all of your upstreams can be persuaded to pin also.

Doesn't a single compromised action in the chain cause the whole to be fucked? Pinning the top level doesn't prevent any spread.

Might want to vendor everything?

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by franktankbank »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #222
franktankbank wrote: post #167

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Doesn't a single compromised action in the chain cause the whole to be fucked? Pinning the top level doesn't prevent any spread.

Might want to vendor everything?

I don't know what this means in this context.

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by phyzome »

BenjiWiebe wrote: post #204
phyzome wrote: post #57

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I don't know, it's nice that they finally broke native browser in-page search. That's a great feature for people who hate finding things.

Native browser in-page search is working for me, on Firefox. Is this a browser-specific change or is it a staged rollout coming my way soon?

Firefox for me as well. It's dodgy on some pages, but on larger PRs it now breaks.

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by graypegg »

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #72
Alifatisk wrote: post #45

Have anyone checked out the status page? It's actually way worse than I thought, I believe this is the first time I am actually witnessing a status page with truly horrible results. https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses

And notably, that page makes this post's title inaccurate. As of this morning, it says `90.21% uptime`, which is a _single_ 9, not 3 (though that's for the platform as a whole, no individual component appears to achieve three 9s.)

Hey! At least that single 9 is in the ten's place. /sarcastic

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

franktankbank wrote: post #223
teaearlgraycold wrote: post #222

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Might want to vendor everything?

I don't know what this means in this context.

Make copies of the entire GitHub action dependency tree.
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