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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by macintux »

onraglanroad wrote: post #163
IshKebab wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think so. GitHub was bought by Microsoft 8 years ago and people have only started complaining about its uptime in the last year or so - exactly correlating with the surge in LLM use.

I don't think so. I've seen those complaints for more than a year. I have an Ops background and I strongly suspect they were given a stupid timeline for the Azure migration. I've got to believe Microsoft have decent Ops people but the management wanted to move faster than was reasonable and screwed it up. Move one thing at a time and double check it all works and you can do a migration like this.

Hotmail redux.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by macintux »

Waterluvian wrote: post #92
opiniateddev wrote: post #85

Given the recent history of outages, I wonder how many are seriously considering moving off GitHub for anything other than code hosting. I mean actions / workflows.

To offer a data point (not a tribalist argument): GitHub Actions being down this often is still less expensive than the cost of switching everything somewhere else. Would rather have my team walk away from the PRs and do other tasks than have engineering effort, meetings, design pages, scheduling, etc. for switching over. This is annoying and I'm here because it's down. But it would have to be far worse to come close…

I’m intensely grateful that despite rumblings, the company I contract to hasn’t switched from self-hosted Jenkins to GHA. Hopefully the steady drumbeat of failure will keep it that way.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by macintux »

efromvt wrote: post #181

Either they had a good month or I'm off my game, I actually spent a minute checking if I did something wrong with actions instead of immediately going to HN to see if it was an outage.

Seems like it’s been solid lately, or at least not quite so obviously broken. I was thinking last week that I hadn’t seen a GitHub outage on HN in quite a while.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by sharts »

__initbrian__ wrote: post #266

All of the outages make sense to me as scaling issues. Each month, GitHub is getting the amount of commits they’d normally get in a year. And it’s growing > Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.) GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2…

That’s no excuse. Particularly if it affects people self hosting their workers.

These are folks that routinely make it a point to press on system design and scalability during interviews.

Now they suddenly can’t scale or design systems but we should accept that?

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by Waterluvian »

macintux wrote: post #282
Waterluvian wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To offer a data point (not a tribalist argument): GitHub Actions being down this often is still less expensive than the cost of switching everything somewhere else. Would rather have my team walk away from the PRs and do other tasks than have engineering effort, meetings, design pages, scheduling, etc. for switching over. This is annoying and I'm here because it's down. But it would have to be far worse to come close…

I’m intensely grateful that despite rumblings, the company I contract to hasn’t switched from self-hosted Jenkins to GHA. Hopefully the steady drumbeat of failure will keep it that way.

If that’s how you feel, make sure you share that feedback with the deciders!

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by shados »

This whole mess brought to like just now little moat there is left in the AI world.

Like, everyone talks about how you can just prompt a new CRM instead of paying for Salesforce.

But in this case, I raced with Fable and Sol and had time to build a full featured, fully functional CI/CD workflow system that has most of the features of GitHub actions (not the ecosystem obviously) and costs less than the GitHub runners per minute, while being able to scale to millions of workflows... And I had it working end to end before the outage was resolved and was already running my apps deploys through it.

It would take a little longer to do in a company with red tape and more investments in the GitHub ecosystem, and of course it only replaced actions. But it works.

There is no moat.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by digitalsushi »

shados wrote: post #287

This whole mess brought to like just now little moat there is left in the AI world. Like, everyone talks about how you can just prompt a new CRM instead of paying for Salesforce. But in this case, I raced with Fable and Sol and had time to build a full featured, fully functional CI/CD workflow system that has most of the features of GitHub actions (not the ecosystem obviously) and costs less than the GitHub runners p…

i can make a snickers bar at home in 30 minutes right now. what's stopping me from taking over mars inc

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by digitalsushi »

rwz wrote: post #57

Have there ever been a comprehensive account from a GitHub insider on why their reliability tanked so hard since the MSFT acquisition? I'm genuinely curious what changed, what their processes are and how they internally think about their reputation being in the gutter with all these incidents.

i'm not carrying anyone's water

but i always guessed that maybe half of us seeing how many tokens we can spend for a year straight maybe stressed tested their platform for a year straight

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by kami23 »

arandomhuman wrote: post #277
dcrazy wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But you’re not self-hosting the tasking service

Because github does not offer the option to (and no, running github enterprise doesn't count).

They don't even let you really run those yourself now either, We moved off a big GHE footprint because the support for it was getting abysmal and features were slowly become GH.com. Ive been dreading the move to GitHub.com and it was worse than I expected.
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