I really do feel for those hubbers that are still working on this years into the Microsoft era. GitHub was an excellent product and from what I hear it was an excellent culture too. I can only assume the culture has eroded similarly to the product itself as Microsoft has finally begun integrating the org into the slower moving machine that is MS.
GitHub partial outage
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Re: GitHub partial outage
#82Why does the main page show all green when there is an ongoing incident? All green here -> https://www.githubstatus.com/
Very Microsofty. I'm still furious with how they handled the global ban on updating CDN (Frontdoor) files until last week and not properly communicating it. https://www.reddit.com/r/AZURE/comments/1on0ung/azure_status...
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
No issues on GitLab. Haven't seen any outage from GitLab in like, ever.
That has definitely not been my experience. I like Gitlab, but they've had regular incidents all along. If a git push failed I wouldn't question it, it's almost never my network. I'd just open Gitlab's Gitlab and find the current active issue. To Gitlab's credit their observability seems to be good, and they do a good job communicating and resolving incidents quickly. Some companies that shall not be named have statu…
Hmmm.
You must be doing GitLab wrong.
Re: GitHub partial outage
#84Re: GitHub partial outage
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the Pragmatic Engineer podcast episode with the former CEO of Github, the latter mentioned that they had their own infra for everything. If I remember correctly, this was due to the fact that Github is quite old and at the time when Github Actions became a thing, cloud providers were not really offering the kind of infra that was necessary to support the feature.
GitHub is old, but GitHub Actions are not. Indeed, GitHub Actions launched two months after the Microsoft acquisition was announced [0], and it is a half-assed clone of Azure Pipelines. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_GitHub
I'll be damned, I feel like I've been using GA since forever!
You're right though, just re-listened to the segment[0] and the ex-CEO mentions they were initially using AWS, then moved to their own servers because of the limitations of AWS at the time and their particular needs. Github Actions did however always run on Azure!
Re: GitHub partial outage
#86Huh could this be why I can't login and pushing packages says my account is banned?
Re: GitHub partial outage
#87Your weekly reminder to take a break
I still can't pull new branches even though the incident says it's resolved. I don't think my boss would be happy with me taking a break this long... but what else can I do when our business uses GH?
Write up a document on the business continuity risks of depending on Github.
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until your hardware fails! Or your VPS provider goes down! Or whatever else, software services going down is going to happen in some capacity, eventually. Real question is what is acceptable
When you self host you also learn how to backup. It’s not complicated actually, you should look into it.
I do know how to do that. I also know how to deploy bare metal servers, I have done so for years. Not really sure what you’re assuming here.
I however prefer to acknowledge the nature of the business, which is there will be an inevitable untimely failure in some way you did not prepare for despite being the most well read, well practiced and researched to the problems at hand.