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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 bitmasher9 »

Anon1096 wrote: post #63

Anyone who used the phrase "measly" in relation to three nines is inadvertently admitting their lack of knowledge in massive systems. 99.9 and 99.95 is the target for some of the most common systems you use all day and is by no means easy to achieve. Even just relying on a couple regional AWS services will put your CEILING at three nines. It's even more embarrassing when people post that one GH uptime tracker that co…

Three 9s is a perfectly reasonable bar to expect for services you depend on. Without GitHub my company cannot deploy code. There is no alternative method to patch prod. In addition many development activities are halted, wasting labor costs.

We wouldn’t couple so much if we knew reliability would be this low. It will influence future decisions.

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

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Post by Octoth0rpe »

Alifatisk wrote: post #45

Have anyone checked out the status page? It's actually way worse than I thought, I believe this is the first time I am actually witnessing a status page with truly horrible results. https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses

And notably, that page makes this post's title inaccurate. As of this morning, it says `90.21% uptime`, which is a _single_ 9, not 3 (though that's for the platform as a whole, no individual component appears to achieve three 9s.)

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

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Post by wongarsu »

embedding-shape wrote: post #41
__alexs wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

GH Actions was good for them as another billable feature, but I'm skeptical we actually gained much over external CI providers

The improvements to PR review have been nice though

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

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Post by cozzyd »

phyzome wrote: post #57
__alexs wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I don't know, it's nice that they finally broke native browser in-page search. That's a great feature for people who hate finding things.

Makes you actually read the code!

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

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Post by williamdclt »

__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 :(

They definitely have. Github evolved a lot faster after the microsoft acquisition, I remember being mildly impressed after it was stagnant for years (this is not an opinion on whether it was evolving in the right direction or if it was a good trade-off)

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

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Post by cozzyd »

wongarsu wrote: post #73
embedding-shape wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

GH Actions was good for them as another billable feature, but I'm skeptical we actually gained much over external CI providers The improvements to PR review have been nice though

Don't forget the security implications if you host your own actions runner.

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

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Post by g947o »

pluc wrote: post #19

I'm amazed Microslop let us keep GitHub this long. Probably because they're training AI on it? To have a direct line to developers? I don't see why else they would've bothered with something that was so anti everything they stood for

What does Microsoft stand for?

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

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Post by dathinab »

apetresc wrote: post #51
Alifatisk wrote: post #45

Have anyone checked out the status page? It's actually way worse than I thought, I believe this is the first time I am actually witnessing a status page with truly horrible results. https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses

Well then clearly you haven't taken a look at https://status.claude.com .

At that 3rd party side GH is currently noticeable worse then claude ...

Like they are down to one 9 availability and very very close to losing that to (90.2x%).

This also fit more closely to my personal experience, then the 99.900-99.989 range the article indicates...

Through honestly 99.9% means 8.76h downtime a year, if we say no more then 20min down time per 3 hours (sliding window), and no more then 1h a day, and >50% downtime being (localized) off-working hours (e.g. night, Sat,Sun) then 99.9% is something you can work with. Sure it would sometimes be slightly annoying. But should not cause any real issues.

On the other hand 90.21%... That is 35.73h outage a year. Probably still fine if for each location the working hour availability is 99.95% and the previous constraints are there. But uh, wtf. that just isn't right for a company of that size.

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

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Post by llimllib »

a-french-anon wrote: post #43
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.

It really feels like Firefox is not a supported browser on GitHub, I hit this and also find that much of the time the commit message is not correctly pulled from the PR description when that setting is enabled

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

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Post by mminer237 »

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #72
Alifatisk wrote: post #45

Have anyone checked out the status page? It's actually way worse than I thought, I believe this is the first time I am actually witnessing a status page with truly horrible results. https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses

And notably, that page makes this post's title inaccurate. As of this morning, it says `90.21% uptime`, which is a _single_ 9, not 3 (though that's for the platform as a whole, no individual component appears to achieve three 9s.)

Note that it gets 90% largely off Copilot going down and Actions not working. Actual git has 98.98%, which is still just one 9 but a lot better.
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