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Re: GitHub is down again

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You can literally watch GitHub explode bit by bit. Take a look at the GitHub Status History; it's hilarious: https://www.githubstatus.com/history .

Someone should make a timeline chart from that, lol.

Here it is. It looks like they are down to a single 9 at this point across all services:

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

Re: GitHub is down again

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> Basically their SOC2 (or whatever) says they have to use GitHub Our SOC2 doesn't specify GitHub by name, but it does require we maintain a record of each PR having been reviewed. I guess in extremis we could email each other patch diffs, and CC the guy responsible for the audit process with the approval...

Does SOC2 itself require that or just yours? I'm not too familiar with SOC2 but I know ISO 27001 quite well, and there's no PR specific "requirements" to speak of. But it is something that could be included in your secure development policy.

Yeah, it’s what you write in the policy.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Probably Worth taking an honest look at whether your CI could just be an SQS queue and a Mac mini running under your desk though

For my OSS work that is about $699 over my budget

Yeah, fair enough (though you can often pick up an M1 Mini for <$300 these days)

Re: GitHub is down again

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Someone should make a timeline chart from that, lol.

Here it is. It looks like they are down to a single 9 at this point across all services: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

Can you add a line graph with incidents per month? Would be useful to see if the number of incidents are going up or down over time.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Does SOC2 itself require that or just yours? I'm not too familiar with SOC2 but I know ISO 27001 quite well, and there's no PR specific "requirements" to speak of. But it is something that could be included in your secure development policy.

Yeah, it’s what you write in the policy.

And it's pretty common to write in the policy, because its pretty much a gimme, and lets you avoid writing a whole bunch of other equivalent quality measures in the policy.

Re: GitHub is down again

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If you'd have asked me a few years ago if anything could be an existential threat to github's dominance in the tech community I'd have quickly said no. If they don't get their ops house in order, this will go down as an all-time own goal in our industry.

Github lost at least one 9, if not two, since last year's "existential" migration to Azure.

I'm pretty sure they don't GAF about GH uptime as long as they can keep training models on it (0.5 /s), but Azure is revenue friction so might be a real problem.

Something this week about "oops we need a quality czar": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903802

Re: GitHub is down again

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That's on every individual that decided to "give it" to Microsoft. Git was made precisely to make this problem go away.

Git is like 10% of building software.

If GitHub is doing 90% more than Git does, "GitHub" is a terrible name for it.

Re: GitHub is down again

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GitHub no longer publishes aggregate numbers so here they are parsed out. It looks like they are down to a single 9 at this point across all services: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

Great project, thanks for building and sharing!

Re: GitHub is down again

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Lots of teams embraced actions to run their CI/CD, and GitHub reviews as part of their merge process. And copilot. Basically their SOC2 (or whatever) says they have to use GitHub. I’m guessing they’re regretting it.

> Basically their SOC2 (or whatever) says they have to use GitHub Our SOC2 doesn't specify GitHub by name, but it does require we maintain a record of each PR having been reviewed. I guess in extremis we could email each other patch diffs, and CC the guy responsible for the audit process with the approval...

Every product vendor, especially those that are even within a shouting distance from security, has a wet dream: to have their product explicitly named in corporate policies.

I have cleaned up more than enough of them.

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