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Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by reactordev »

falloutx wrote: post #261
reactordev wrote: post #208

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Published in Oct 2025... I think your estimate is off. Note the hockey stick growth in the graph they showed in Oct. Here we are in February. It's gotten way worse now with additional Claude's, Claw's, Ralph's, and such. It may not be 100x as was told to me but it's definitely putting the strain on the entire org.

> It may not be 100x as was told to me but it's definitely putting the strain on the entire org. But thats not even the top 5 strain on github, their main issue is the forced adoption of Azure. I can guarantee you that about 99% of repos are still cold, as in very few pulls and no pushes and that hasn't changed in 3 months. Storage itself doesn't add that much strain on the system if the data is accessed rarely.

I put the blame squarely on GitHub and refuse to believe it’s a vendors fault. It’s their fault. They may be forced to use Azure but that doesn’t stop one from being able to deliver a service.

I’ve done platforms on AWS, Azure, and GCP. The blame is not on the cloud provider unless everyone is down.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by jraph »

tryauuum wrote: post #150
jraph wrote: post #84

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Sure! Do you allow me to run the following command? cd project; find -type f | while read f; do mv "$f" /dev/null; done

Don't do this It will break your /dev/null

yeah, maybe do a backup before:

    mv /dev/null{,.bak}
So you can restore it if your kernel nuked your null device.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by dizhn »

adamcharnock wrote: post #269
dizhn wrote: post #193

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You've got any docs for firecracker as forgejo runners?

Ping me an email, adam@ domain. If you're interested I'll see about getting the PR created sooner rather than later.

I actually went through some of the issue/pr stuff for the forgejo project after I asked you. It seems like things are moving along nicely and you seem to have found a welcoming environment in their repo. I will keep an eye on that progress. Thanks very much. I do not have a pressing need but firecracker runners would be pretty awesome to have.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by dev_l1x_be »

danudey wrote: post #151
dev_l1x_be wrote: post #136

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Good to know. So it only causes the UI inconsistency bugs.

The new design/architecture allows them to do great stuff in the name of efficiency; for example, when browsing through some parts of the UI, it's now much more capable of just updating the part of the page that's changed, rather than having to reload the entire thing. This is a significantly better approach for a lot of things. I understand that the 'updating the part of the page that's changed' functionality is now…

> to do great stuff in the name of efficiency; for example, when browsing through some parts of the UI, it's now much more capable of just updating the part of the page that's changed

Are you implying that this only doable with React? I mean just for the fun of it you can look at this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GObi93tjZI

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by pyb »

Reminded of Dan Luu's post on the Normalization of Deviance (2015, https://danluu.com/wat/)

"There's the company with a reputation for having great engineering practices that had 2 9s of reliability last time I checked..."

Now it's 2026, and customers are grudgingly accepting zero 9's of reliability.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by xeonmc »

b00ty4breakfast wrote: post #120
habitable5 wrote: post #47

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> We are in a future that nobody wanted. some people wanted this future and put in untold amount of money to make it happen. Hint: one of them is a rabid Tolkien fan.

the irony of Tolkien being associated with a techno-dystopia makes me nauseous

    Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

    Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by brookst »

habitable5 wrote: post #225
tayo42 wrote: post #188

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Who is it?

Peter Thiel. Evil incarnate and the next president of the United States you've never heard of. Vance is his sock puppet, he was chosen because he is guaranteed not to have a single independent thought so when Trump croaks Thiel will be the president in all but name. It was also he who willed OpenAI to be in order to help destroying American democracy.

I can’t follow OpenAI as a ploy to destroy democracy when he already has Palantir.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by coolgoose »

stevekemp wrote: post #230
h4kunamata wrote: post #143

GitLab is the solution, if you aren't on it already. I worked for one of Australia largest airline company, monthly meeting with Github team resumed in one word: AI There is zero focus into the actual platform as we knew it, it is all AI, Copilot, more AI and more Copilot. If you are expecting things to get better, I have bad news for you. Copilot is not being adopted by companies as they hoped, they are using Claude…

GitLab is no improvement over github, their features are frequently half-baked, their site is slow, and outages are just as common. I used to like Gitlab, and I've self-hosted enterprise versions of both github and gitlab, and strongly believe migration from one of them to the other for "improved reliability" will be utterly underwhelming and pointless. Gitlab used to be able to take the high-ground due to the open-c…

This pretty much, and it's also more expensive.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by dickersnoodle »

cebert wrote: post #203
matthewisabel wrote: post #135

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Hey from the GitHub team. Outages like this are incredibly painful and we'll share a post-mortem once our investigation is complete. It stings to have this happen as we're putting a lot of effort specifically into the core product, growing teams like Actions and increasing performance-focused initiatives on key areas like pull requests where we're already making solid progress[1]. Would love if you would reach out to…

Can you guys stop adding new features for a while please and just make what’s there more reliable?

Every developer has had this fight with management and most lose.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by flyinghamster »

b00ty4breakfast wrote: post #120
habitable5 wrote: post #47

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> We are in a future that nobody wanted. some people wanted this future and put in untold amount of money to make it happen. Hint: one of them is a rabid Tolkien fan.

the irony of Tolkien being associated with a techno-dystopia makes me nauseous

Indeed, a theme throughout his works to the point of directly saying it was to beware things that are of a deeper art than you possess.
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