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Does anyone recommend an alternative? We've already moved our runners to blacksmith, looking for a control plane as well. We are tiny startup that ships at high velocity and this kind of downtime is highly disruptive for us
I don't think this portents anything great for software in general. We're a good year+ into the use LLMs for all major bits of software that we all rely upon and GitHub here is down to one 9 of uptime. I've been using GitHub for a _long_ time, my first commits there go back to August 2009!, and I honestly don't recall GitHub going down as much as it has in the last year. I'm sure there's other things happening in the…
To me this correlates more to them being bought by Microsoft, a company known for being seemingly incapable of creating quality software to the point that it's not even funny anymore, and also known for sloppifying all the products they touch.
If you want to have a horrible time, try reading some of the runner code. It's early 2010s-style Windows-First, MSFT C# crud that has trouble not racing several threads to inconclusive status codes.
Mods, I think there is something wrong with the front page algorithm. This post has been stuck there for more than a year now. Among with assorted thoughts on AI or new model point release announcements.
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…
Mods, I think there is something wrong with the front page algorithm. This post has been stuck there for more than a year now. Among with assorted thoughts on AI or new model point release announcements.
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.
Mitchell Hashimoto had a blog post a few months ago talking about him moving off of GitHub: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github This is a man who's spent a significant portion of every day for the last 15 years on GitHub.
I don't think this portents anything great for software in general. We're a good year+ into the use LLMs for all major bits of software that we all rely upon and GitHub here is down to one 9 of uptime. I've been using GitHub for a _long_ time, my first commits there go back to August 2009!, and I honestly don't recall GitHub going down as much as it has in the last year. I'm sure there's other things happening in the…
Are these outages caused by introduced bugs, though, or by load issues? As someone who has spent many years working in high load environments, this is not an uncommon pattern. You design a system and it works great. It can handle failures, load spikes, it is horizontally scalable, things are great. You think you figured it out. And then load keeps increasing and you suddenly hit a tipping point where everything keeps…
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