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Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by jpalawaga »

shimman wrote: post #53
mikert89 wrote: post #29

pretty clear that companies like microsoft are actually terrible at engineering, their core products were built 30 years ago. any changes now are generally extremely incremental and quickly rolled back with issue. trying to innovate at github shows just how bad they are.

It's not just MSFT, it's all of big tech. They basically run as a cartel, destroy competition through illegal means, engage in regulatory capture, and ensure their fiefdoms reign supreme. All the more reason why they should be sliced and diced into oblivion.

to be fair, git is one of the most easily replaced pieces of tech.

just add a new git remote and push. less so for issues and and pulls, but at least your dev team/ci doesn't end up blocked.

Re: GitHub is down again

#92

Post by aaronbrethorst »

charles_f wrote: post #75

That pink "Unicorn!" joke is something that should be reconsidered. When your services are down you're probably causing a lot of people a lot of stress ; I don't think it's the time to be cute and funny about it. EDIT: my bad, seems to be their server's name.

I don't know if it's meant to be a joke, per se. They use (or used) the Unicorn server once upon a time:

https://github.blog/news-insights/unicorn/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4957986

Re: GitHub is down again

#94

Post by cced »

mholt wrote: post #6

Of course they're down while I'm trying to address a "High severity" security bug in Caddy but all I'm getting is a unicorn when loading the report. (Actually there's 3 I'm currently working, but 2 are patched already, still closing the feedback loop though.) I have a 2-hour window right now that is toddler free. I'm worried that the outage will delay the feedback loop with the reporter(s) into tomorrow and ultimatel…

Which security bug(s) are you referring to?

Re: GitHub is down again

#95

Post by ihumanable »

charles_f wrote: post #75

That pink "Unicorn!" joke is something that should be reconsidered. When your services are down you're probably causing a lot of people a lot of stress ; I don't think it's the time to be cute and funny about it. EDIT: my bad, seems to be their server's name.

I don't think it's a joke, it's the server that github runs on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(web_server)

Re: GitHub is down again

#96

Post by arcologies1985 »

throw_m239339 wrote: post #72
tigerlily wrote: post #64

So, what're people's alt stack for replacing GitHub?

Wait a minute, isn't Git supposed to be... distributed?

Issues, CI, and downloads for built binaries aren't part of vanilla Git. CI in particular can be hard if you make a multi-platform project and don't want to have to buy a new mac every few years.

Re: GitHub is down again

#98

Post by arianvanp »

panarky wrote: post #78
showerst wrote: post #7

If you'd have asked me a few years ago if anything could be an existential threat to github's dominance in the tech community I'd have quickly said no. If they don't get their ops house in order, this will go down as an all-time own goal in our industry.

Github lost at least one 9, if not two, since last year's "existential" migration to Azure.

They didn't migrate yet.

Re: GitHub is down again

#99

Post by mikert89 »

shimman wrote: post #53
mikert89 wrote: post #29

pretty clear that companies like microsoft are actually terrible at engineering, their core products were built 30 years ago. any changes now are generally extremely incremental and quickly rolled back with issue. trying to innovate at github shows just how bad they are.

It's not just MSFT, it's all of big tech. They basically run as a cartel, destroy competition through illegal means, engage in regulatory capture, and ensure their fiefdoms reign supreme. All the more reason why they should be sliced and diced into oblivion.

yeah i have worked at a few FAANG, honestly stunning how entrenched and bad some of the products are. internally, they are completely incapable of making any meaningful product changes, the whole thing will break

Re: GitHub is down again

#100

Post by edoceo »

cedws wrote: post #38

Screw GitHub, seriously. This unreliability is not acceptable. If I’m in a position where I can influence what code forge we use in future I will do everything in my power to steer away from GitHub.

Forge feature parity is easy to find. But GH has that discover ability feature and the social queues from stars/forks.

One solution I see is (eg) internal forge (Gitlab/gitea/etc) and then mirrored to GH for those secondary features.

Which is funny. If GH was better we'd just buy their better plan. But as it stands we buy from elsewhere and just use GH free plans.

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