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GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by embedding-shape »

__alexs wrote: post #21
embedding-shape wrote: post #3

From GitHub CTO in 2025 when they announced they're moving everything to Azure instead of letting GitHub's infrastructure remain independent: > For us, availability is job #1, and this migration ensures GitHub remains the fast, reliable platform developers depend on That went about as well as everyone thought back then. Does anyone else remember back in ~2014-2015 sometime, when half the community was screaming at Gi…

GitHub have not really got much better at adding new features either though :(

This was before Actions and a whole lot of other non-git related stuff. There was years (maybe even a decade?) where GitHub essentially was unchanged besides fixes and small incremental improvements, long time ago :)

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by conartist6 »

William_BB wrote: post #32

To me, Github has always seemed well positioned to be a one-stop solution for software development: code, CI/CD, documentation, ticket tracking, project management etc. Could anyone explain where they failed? I keep hearing that Github is terrible

It always starts out good enough, but the reason they pursue horizontal integration is that it ensures that you won't be able to get out even if (when) you eventually want to. You'll be as glued as a fly to flypaper.

That's the reason you hear the complaints: they're from people who no longer want to be using this product but have no choice.

Because Microsoft doesn't need to innovate or even provide good service to keep the flies glued, they do what they've been doing: focus all their resources on making the glue stickier rather than focusing on making people want to stay even if they had an option to leave.

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by a-french-anon »

cedws wrote: post #18

While GitHub obsess over shoving AI into everything, the rest of the platform is genuinely crumbling and its security flaws are being abused to cause massive damage. Last week Aqua Security was breached and a few repositories it owns were infected. The threat actors abused widespread use of mutable references in GitHub Actions, which the community has been screaming about for years, to infect potentially thousands of…

If you want more ammo for your ranting (no offense meant, I also rant): an issue as massive as https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/142308 lingering for years should do the trick.

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by Hasnep »

ljm wrote: post #29
cedws wrote: post #18

While GitHub obsess over shoving AI into everything, the rest of the platform is genuinely crumbling and its security flaws are being abused to cause massive damage. Last week Aqua Security was breached and a few repositories it owns were infected. The threat actors abused widespread use of mutable references in GitHub Actions, which the community has been screaming about for years, to infect potentially thousands of…

I worry that CI just got overcomplicated by default when providers started rocking up with templated YAML and various abstractions over it to add dynamic behaviour, dependencies, and so on. Perhaps mixing the CI with the CD made that worse because usually deployment and delivery has complexities of its own. Back in the day you'd probably use Jenkins for the delivery piece, and the E2E nightlies, and use something mor…

I'm trying out SelfCI [1] for one of my projects and it's similar to what you were describing. My whole CI pipeline is just a shell script that runs the actual build and test commands, I can write a script in another language like python if I need more complexity and I can run it all locally at any time to debug.

[1] https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/radicle.dpc.pw/rad%3Az2tDzYbAX...

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by anonym29 »

Not owned by companies that help the US Federal Government illegally spy on their own citizens and murder children overseas:

Gitlab

Bitbucket

Sourceforge

Forgejo

Codeberg

Radicle

Launchpad

Owned by companies that help the US Federal Government illegally spy on their own citizens and murder children overseas:

Github

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by esafak »

William_BB wrote: post #32

To me, Github has always seemed well positioned to be a one-stop solution for software development: code, CI/CD, documentation, ticket tracking, project management etc. Could anyone explain where they failed? I keep hearing that Github is terrible

They got acquired by Microsoft.

Re: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

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Post by pscanf »

I only use GitHub (and actions) for personal open-source projects, so I can't really complain because I'm getting everything for free¹. But even for those projects I recently had to (partially) switch actions to a paid solution² because GitHub's runners were randomly getting stuck for no discernible reason.

¹ Glossing over the "what they're getting in return" part. ² https://www.warpbuild.com/

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