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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by anticensor »

erikbye wrote: post #38
anonsivalley652 wrote: post #35

When 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)_/¯

IME GitHub has not had increased downtime after Microsoft's acquisition.

Microsoft GitHub is currently part of core Microsoft software development infrastructure. Windows source code resides on GitHub even.

Re: GitHub was down

#72

Post by dorfsmay »

cle wrote: post #68
waynenilsen wrote: post #51

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

> How do we calculate Uptime? > Our Uptime calculation is based on the percentage of successful requests we serve through our web, API, and Git client interfaces. Just curious, how do they measure this? What is the actual calculation?

Same here.

They obviously don't have beacons on the client side, I wonder if it's based on statistics, at this time of the day on a Tuesday we should be getting x requests but are getting only x/n.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by ArchReaper »

>We continue to investigate the issues with GitHub services and will shift to a slower update cadence to provide more meaningful updates going forward.

Translation: our shitty software update practices are now affecting Github, not just Windows!

If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, why is your company so incompetent at software updates in the past few years?

Re: GitHub was down

#74

Post by Benjammer »

cle wrote: post #68
waynenilsen wrote: post #51

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

> How do we calculate Uptime? > Our Uptime calculation is based on the percentage of successful requests we serve through our web, API, and Git client interfaces. Just curious, how do they measure this? What is the actual calculation?

What do you mean? All modern enterprise analytics/monitoring solutions are going to be able to give you some kind of top-level "request success rate" metric. I assume they mostly just lean into whatever monitoring tooling they have set up. What kind of "calculation" are you imagining here? Like a very specific SRE formula for availability windows or something?

Re: GitHub was down

#76

Post by scumbert »

ArchReaper wrote: post #73

>We continue to investigate the issues with GitHub services and will shift to a slower update cadence to provide more meaningful updates going forward. Translation: our shitty software update practices are now affecting Github, not just Windows! If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, why is your company so incompetent at software updates in the past few years?

Is it not ostensibly the same company, just with a new owner...?

Re: GitHub was down

#77

Post by applecrazy »

ArchReaper wrote: post #73

>We continue to investigate the issues with GitHub services and will shift to a slower update cadence to provide more meaningful updates going forward. Translation: our shitty software update practices are now affecting Github, not just Windows! If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, why is your company so incompetent at software updates in the past few years?

Github is part of MS, but as I understand it, is run separately from the rest of Microsoft.

Re: GitHub was down

#78

Post by herbderb »

ArchReaper wrote: post #73

>We continue to investigate the issues with GitHub services and will shift to a slower update cadence to provide more meaningful updates going forward. Translation: our shitty software update practices are now affecting Github, not just Windows! If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, why is your company so incompetent at software updates in the past few years?

I think that's talking about status update cadence, not software updates.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by salmon30salmon »

ArchReaper wrote: post #73

>We continue to investigate the issues with GitHub services and will shift to a slower update cadence to provide more meaningful updates going forward. Translation: our shitty software update practices are now affecting Github, not just Windows! If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, why is your company so incompetent at software updates in the past few years?

You honestly believe that a company the size of GitHub has had their software update practices appreciably change since the acquisition? Relax, GitHub had update issues before and they will have them again.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by uniformlyrandom »

ArchReaper wrote: post #73

>We continue to investigate the issues with GitHub services and will shift to a slower update cadence to provide more meaningful updates going forward. Translation: our shitty software update practices are now affecting Github, not just Windows! If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, why is your company so incompetent at software updates in the past few years?

I've read it as "we'll stop posting silly updates to this incident until we actually know something", not "we'll stop rolling out updates to our services".

I'd wage that Microsoft practices had nothing to do with this, but I'll wait for RCA.

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