What has changed at GitHub to cause this?
Possibly a combination of moving infrastructure to Azure, and also a significant increase in the number of PRs and commits due to Vibe-coding?
GitHub is once again down
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#42Took a full 8 years for a Microsoft acquisition to go to shit, which is probably a record. Kudos to the Github team for holding out this long.
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#43You have GOT to be kidding me.
No, got to be kidding me day is next week.
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#44Every day more Microsofty...they should rename to "Your Repository Needs To Restart To Apply Updates"
It's now safe to turn off your expectations.
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#45What has changed at GitHub to cause this?
Senior engineers/leaders getting tired of Microsoft's shit and leaving.
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#46What has changed at GitHub to cause this?
I assume this is all of the pains of going from "GHA is sorta kinda on Azure", which was a bad state, to "GHA is going full Azure", which is a painful state to get to but presumably simplifies things.
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#47What has changed at GitHub to cause this?
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#48github is at one nine, basically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428035
I once worked at a place with more micro services than engineers. We joked about "we have as many 8s of uptime as you need!"
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#49The worst part of all this is that GitHub's CTO and VP of Engineering sent out the usual "here's what we'll do to fix things" letter to their larger customers and, without exaggeration, it boiled down to: 1) "Here's a bunch of stuff we already did!" which... clearly isn't working, and 2) "We're continuing our Azure migration." also clearly not working.
So needless to say, if you depend on GitHub for critical business operations, you need to start thinking about what a world without GitHub looks like for your business and start working your way toward that. I know my confidence in GitHub's engineering leadership is at rock bottom.