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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by djsumdog »

dirtydroog wrote: post #26
kevinmannix wrote: post #3

This seems to be the third or so day in the past week I've had issues with GitHub around this time in the morning. They've typically been really good. I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been more talk about it on HN.

Still miles better than BitBucket.

When was the last time BitBucket had an outage? Personally I don't see a lot of difference between the two platforms; or GitLab (my primary now). Github probably has the best UI, but Gitlab's has gotten a lot better; and there are always self hosted solutions like Gogs.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by rohansingh »

nalllar wrote: post #20
rohansingh wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get it. Their own incidents tab on the same site shows four incidents this month: https://www.githubstatus.com/history I'm not sure how that results in 99.98% uptime on the other tab.

turns out it's bad/misleading UI, there's a dropdown for which type of downtime which defaults to 'GIT Operations'

Ah, got it. It's still incorrect though. With the incident a couple days ago, I couldn't `git push` for a couple hours.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by ithkuil »

chimprich wrote: post #4
pcr910303 wrote: post #2

HN already has a 'Github downtime' post as soon as I find Github weird and check HN if it's only me. How is everybody so fast? :-)

If Github is down, thousands of programmers suddenly have nothing better to do.

I rolled my eyes twice, then merged a few PRs manually and moved on with my day. (i.e. the git server itself and all the API required to interact with the CI automation _appears_ to work just fine)

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by anonsivalley652 »

When Microsoft buys companies, they tend to progressively decay as the original architects leave, the morale of remaining employees grinds down from the stress and they bring in cheaper contractors to duct tape the bits together and plug the holes in levee with their fingers. I've BTDTBTTS. cough LinkExchange, WebTV, Hotmail, Skype, Softricity, Nokia, LinkedIn, Danger/Sidekick cough GH maybe next. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by grumple »

nalllar wrote: post #14
charrondev wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s quite unfortunate. I’m hoping the post some kind of RCA/analysis. I know I would if we had a month with only 2 9s of uptime.

they're doing the usual corporate status page uptime lying: https://i.imgur.com/vy7onDT.png https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime

% uptime is a terrible metric. Begin down for an hour in the middle of the day is only .14% downtime for the month but is typically regarded as a big deal. If it happened every single workday you're still looking at 97% uptime! Sounds wonderful, right? Just work around it for an hour per day!

Number of outages and duration total are much better metrics.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by PenguinCoder »

pdelgallego wrote: post #13
savrajsingh wrote: post #8

No matter how many talented engineers you have on staff, your entire service can still go down. Let's pause and reflect on that. ;)

"You can't legislate against failure, but you can focus on fast detection and response" -- Chris Pinkham

"Prevention is ideal, but detection is a must"

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by erikbye »

anonsivalley652 wrote: post #35

When Microsoft buys companies, they tend to progressively decay as the original architects leave, the morale of remaining employees grinds down from the stress and they bring in cheaper contractors to duct tape the bits together and plug the holes in levee with their fingers. I've BTDTBTTS. cough LinkExchange, WebTV, Hotmail, Skype, Softricity, Nokia, LinkedIn, Danger/Sidekick cough GH maybe next. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

IME GitHub has not had increased downtime after Microsoft's acquisition.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by anonsivalley652 »

erikbye wrote: post #38
anonsivalley652 wrote: post #35

When Microsoft buys companies, they tend to progressively decay as the original architects leave, the morale of remaining employees grinds down from the stress and they bring in cheaper contractors to duct tape the bits together and plug the holes in levee with their fingers. I've BTDTBTTS. cough LinkExchange, WebTV, Hotmail, Skype, Softricity, Nokia, LinkedIn, Danger/Sidekick cough GH maybe next. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

IME GitHub has not had increased downtime after Microsoft's acquisition.

Well, some other people in the comments disagree. And it hasn't happened yet, but it's the way they don't manage / integrate acquisitions very well unless they're wowie complementary products like Visio. Danger dropped off a cliff and Softricity was absolutely amazing but shelved, so friends of mine basically repeated the theme for VMware View and were acquihired by VMware. Time will tell where GH goes.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by bdcravens »

anonsivalley652 wrote: post #35

When Microsoft buys companies, they tend to progressively decay as the original architects leave, the morale of remaining employees grinds down from the stress and they bring in cheaper contractors to duct tape the bits together and plug the holes in levee with their fingers. I've BTDTBTTS. cough LinkExchange, WebTV, Hotmail, Skype, Softricity, Nokia, LinkedIn, Danger/Sidekick cough GH maybe next. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Do a search on HN for "Github down". It happened a lot before the Microsoft acquisition in mid-2018. Perhaps what you're saying is true, but your comment is entirely not relevant to this outage.
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