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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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Post by maccard »

PxldLtd wrote: post #250
maccard wrote: post #197

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I don’t know what’s worse - in 2026 someone genuinely suggesting Jenkins as a viable GHA alternative, or me agreeing with that. Jenkins has possibly the worst user experience of any piece of software I’ve had to use in the last few years. It’s slow, brittle, somehow both heavyweight and has no features, littered with security vulns due to architecture, is impossible to navigate, has absolutely no standardisation for…

Yep, I went through the exact same pains. We desperately wanted to move to something else and I kept steering us away from Jenkins as I'd experienced its pains at a previous role. We evaluated tons of different options and begrudgingly settled on Jenkins too.

I think TeamCity is a better product, and I’d be happy to pay for it tbh!

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

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Post by sixeyes »

eterm wrote: post #64
sixeyes wrote: post #33

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why is az devops on the floor? i am having to choose between the clients existing az dops and our internal gitlab for where to host a pipeline, and i don't know what would be good at all

It works fine,it just feels like it has been under a kind of maintenance mode for a while. There's clearly one small team that works on it. There are pros and cons to that. It hasn't even got an obnoxious Copilot button yet for example, but on the other hand it was only relatively recently you could properly edit comments in markdown. If the client has existing AzDo Pipelines then I'd suggest keeping them there.

thank you very much! that copilot comment got me, haha.

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

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Post by zackwu »

nilkn wrote: post #171
jedberg wrote: post #139

GitHub is in a tough spot. From what I've heard they've been ordered to move everything to Azure from their long standing dataceners. That is bound to cause issues. Then on top of that they are using AI coders for infra changes (supposedly) which will also add issues. And then on top of all that, their traffic is probably skyrocketing like mad because of everyone else using AI coders. Look at popular projects -- a fe…

> Look at popular projects -- a few minutes after an issue is filed they have sometimes 10+ patches submitted. All generating PRs and forks and all the things. I think this is a really important point that is getting overlooked in most conversations about GitHub's reliability lately. GitHub was not designed or architected for a world where millions of AI coding agents can trivially generate huge volumes of commits an…

yeah this is indeed a good insight. Back in the days, who would expect so many bots to "review" code and leave overly verbose comments under every PR in a popular repo?

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

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Post by braiamp »

lmm wrote: post #239
braiamp wrote: post #14

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> I wish we could get back to platforms (or OSes for that matter) focusing in reliability and stability That's only a valid sentiment if you only use the big players. Both of those have medium/smaller competitors that have shown (for decades) that they are extremely boring, therefore stable.

Like who? HN loves to rave about GitLab but they're even less stable than GitHub.

Gitlab service may be unreliable, but Gitlab the product to deploy is extremely fine. Many third party instances of Gitlab that don't have problems that only happens at scale.
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