Don't forget to check your SLAs
Enterprise = 99.95% (quarterly)
https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-enterpr...
They're having a bad February but January was good. We will see what March has in store
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Re: GitHub was down
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let’s reflect on Amazon’s 99.999999999% (literally their number) durability on S3.
Durability isn't uptime.
Correct. Availability is 99.99. https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/
Re: GitHub was down
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
GitHub is not a human being, it's a company.
Re: GitHub was down
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
A lot of people have patience on day one, but this is the third or so day now this has happened. It’s understandable there are ruffled feathers.
Re: GitHub was down
#55HN 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.
Fortunately the first I saw of the one a few days ago started right around lunchtime.
Re: GitHub was down
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
IME GitHub has not had increased downtime after Microsoft's acquisition.
Well, some other people in the comments disagree. And it hasn't happened yet, but it's the way they don't manage / integrate acquisitions very well unless they're wowie complementary products like Visio. Danger dropped off a cliff and Softricity was absolutely amazing but shelved, so friends of mine basically repeated the theme for VMware View and were acquihired by VMware. Time will tell where GH goes.
There are so many logical flaws here.
People's comments are meaningless, you can look at historical GitHub up-time and see that it hasn't changed meaningfully.
"And it hasn't happened yet"
Ah yes, now you have to backtrack from: it happened! to... no wait I promise it will happen! Based on... what? The fact that some acquisitions don't go well?
This is all pure speculation with no substantiation.
I recommend learning about confirmation bias.
Re: GitHub was down
#57When Microsoft buys companies, they tend to progressively decay as the original architects leave, the morale of remaining employees grinds down from the stress and they bring in cheaper contractors to duct tape the bits together and plug the holes in levee with their fingers. I've BTDTBTTS. cough LinkExchange, WebTV, Hotmail, Skype, Softricity, Nokia, LinkedIn, Danger/Sidekick cough GH maybe next. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That has nothing to do with Microsoft. That is ANY large merger.
1. Nothing is going to change. We bought this company because we love it
2. We need to show a higher profit for this quarter, cut all expenses for every subsidiary by 15% by Friday
3. Cut back on training, R&D, and support teams. they are a huge cost center
4. Bunch of employees leave after retention bonuses, replaced with MUCH cheaper labor
5. Need to show better on our next quarterly filing, slightly increase prices
6. Through attrition, replace more good people with cheap drones, until nobody knows WHY things are the way they are.
7. More increased prices, and way increased support contracts
8. Wonder why we have lost all this marketshare. Look at Company X, they are doing great, lets buy them.Re: GitHub was down
#58HN 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.
Or a combination of all three!
Re: GitHub was down
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Still miles better than BitBucket.
When was the last time BitBucket had an outage? Personally I don't see a lot of difference between the two platforms; or GitLab (my primary now). Github probably has the best UI, but Gitlab's has gotten a lot better; and there are always self hosted solutions like Gogs.
> When was the last time BitBucket had an outage?
I've been doing on-going client work for someone using BitBucket and for weeks it feels like every other day has an outage related to their pipelines (CI) feature (the thing I happen to be working on).
It was constant banners about service disruption. There's a lot of UI outage related issues too, like the pipelines page starting to show a new build but never updating any of the progress until you reload the page -- which sounds like some type of API outage somewhere. I'm not sure if that gets reported as an outage but it makes using the platform not fun.
Re: GitHub was down
#60No matter how many talented engineers you have on staff, your entire service can still go down. Let's pause and reflect on that. ;)
The interesting thing is that Git is entirely non-centralized, so in theory they could simply redirect to servers onto which the data has been mirrored.