No matter how many talented engineers you have on staff, your entire service can still go down. Let's pause and reflect on that. ;)
Let’s reflect on Amazon’s 99.999999999% (literally their number) durability on S3.
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Wow. The apparent level of conceit with which you ended your message is astounding. Do you think they intend to break production? You don’t mind? There are real people behind this who are hard at work delivering us a great product, we should cut them some slack. I apologize if you meant it differently but it came off a little off-putting.
Intentions are meaningless. If you're providing a service, (especially charging money for said service), you can't break it because "you're hard at work".
> Intentions are meaningless
Are you a robot? Have some humanity...
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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'
Yeah, this is just the poor UI of their provider, Atlassian Statuspage.
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#45HN 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, the software developing world comes to a standstill. So people either get a coffee, take a shit or go to YCNews.
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#46HN 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.
Conversely, if Hacker News was down GitHub would suddenly see a spike in traffic :)
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#49Looks like they are fine now. Yay!
I'm still unable to leave any code reviews, and occasionally I'm getting error pages.
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#50I've been noticing the issue they're describing for a few days now, with errors in GitHub Actions requiring rebuilds and webhooks not seeming to fire which caused Jira to go out of sync.