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Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?

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Re: Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?

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Sorry... we probably should have put a CDN in front of our humble Linode box earlier. Here's a cache link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200629103627/https://nimbleind... Edit: Cloudflare seems to be working now. Wow, that was really easy to setup.

Its hard for me to trust your products if you didn't even have a Cloudflare in front. EDIT: I don't imply the product is bad, sorry

I imagine this is just for their blog, which is probably an afterthought.

Re: Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?

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It could also mean that they are more active and creating more chaos due to more changes. shameless and useless advertising.

That's pretty much their conclusion > [..] GitHub has been down more since the acquisition by Microsoft. But that could be all a part of coordinated effort to be more transparent about their service status, an effort that should be applauded.

That's not a conclusion, it's a theory.

Re: Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?

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Sorry... we probably should have put a CDN in front of our humble Linode box earlier. Here's a cache link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200629103627/https://nimbleind... Edit: Cloudflare seems to be working now. Wow, that was really easy to setup.

:-) Cloudflare is amazing, yes. Everyone should use it by default, I say.

Until they go down too..

I vote for more diversity rather.

Re: Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?

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> (a bunch of comments about the UX redesign) I agree. I'll add one: README files with tables now require horizontal scrolling, and that's utterly disappointing. > The "explore" and "trending" functionality I do work in ML and computer vision, and this is how I discover all of the new models and code people are using. It's awesome. > Not sure about others, but i used GitHub as a git host and issue/MR tracker. All the…

Many of my projects have a fixed scope and thus are 'done' at some point. If you develop like this, CI/CD is rarely worth the effort. Its better suited for projects that suffer from scope creep or regular upstream breakages.

Yeah it's only needed for projects that might change. Anything you can guarantee will never change, is fine.

Re: Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?

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They're still averaging 99.81% up-time over the last three months. This means they have been down for a total of 4 hours out of 90 days. I don't think it's all that concerning.

The gold standard here is 5 9s, not 2. They have paying customers that are being inconvenienced by this. We lost time over this multiple times in the last few weeks. So, not good. IMHO they are having some major issues with their release process that they need to address. Standards have slipped there; they used to be better at this.

The numbers on Github Enterprise might be different. They probably roll out changes to the free/$4 per month Github first.

Re: Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?

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Sorry... we probably should have put a CDN in front of our humble Linode box earlier. Here's a cache link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200629103627/https://nimbleind... Edit: Cloudflare seems to be working now. Wow, that was really easy to setup.

Its hard for me to trust your products if you didn't even have a Cloudflare in front. EDIT: I don't imply the product is bad, sorry

That’s a statement

Re: Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?

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post #61

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Its hard for me to trust your products if you didn't even have a Cloudflare in front. EDIT: I don't imply the product is bad, sorry

I imagine this is just for their blog, which is probably an afterthought.

That's correct, this was only our blog. We've only just recently begun an effort to publish more frequent and more interesting content. Although OP's point is fair.

Re: Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?

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Wow, that's stark. I count 6 in April-June (2 major outages) and only 1 in January-March (0 major outages. I wonder if COVID has affected this somehow. Anecdotally I've heard of at least one other ~peer company with a large rise in incidents/outages since April. Strange since both companies previously had a strong culture of remote work (maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of eng was remote) going into the pandemic, so I'd be quite sur…

If GitHub's been migrating to Azure infrastructure on the backend, it's possible that everyone else moving to all-WfH helped to cause it. Teams use massively increased during lockdown for obvious reasons and that's definitely Azure-based. If Teams managed to overload Azure capacity, I could see that having knock-on effects on GitHub.

> it's possible that everyone else moving to all-WfH helped to cause it

No, MS prioritising Teams land grabbery is what caused it.

Re: Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?

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Sorry... we probably should have put a CDN in front of our humble Linode box earlier. Here's a cache link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200629103627/https://nimbleind... Edit: Cloudflare seems to be working now. Wow, that was really easy to setup.

Its hard for me to trust your products if you didn't even have a Cloudflare in front. EDIT: I don't imply the product is bad, sorry

I would trust it less.
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