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Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

#91

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Over 100x is what I’m hearing. Though that could just be panic and they don’t know the real number because they can’t handle the traffic.

One hundred ? Did I read that right?

There’s a huge up tick in people who weren’t engineers suddenly using git for projects with AI.

This is all grapevine but yeah, you read that right.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

#93

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How much has the volume increased, from what you know?

Over 100x is what I’m hearing. Though that could just be panic and they don’t know the real number because they can’t handle the traffic.

An anecdote: On one project, I use a skill + custom cli to assist getting PRs through a sometimes long and winding CI process. `/babysit-pr`

This includes regular checks on CI checks using `gh`. My skill / cli are broken right now:

`gh pr checks 8174 --repo [repo] 2>&1)`

   Error: Exit code 1

   Non-200 OK status code: 429 Too Many Requests
   Body:
   {
     "message": "This endpoint is temporarily being throttled. Please try again later. For more on scraping GitHub and how it may affect your rights, please review our Terms of Service (https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service)",
     "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/graphql/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api",
     "status": "429"
   }

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

#94

Can someone in GitHub senior leadership please start paying attention and reprioritise towards actually delivering a product that's at least relatively reliable? I moved my company over to GH enterprise last year (from AzDO) and I'm considering moving us away to another vendor altogether as a result of the constant partial outages. Things that used to "just work" now are slow in the UI, and GH actions fail to schedul…

Not going to happen. This is terminal decline. Next step is to kill off free repos, and then they'll start ratcheting up the price to the point that they have one small dedicated engineering team supporting each customer they have. They will have exactly one customer. At some point they'll end up owned by Broadcom, OpenText, Rocket, or Progress.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

#95

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The trend of "non-functional software" is happening everywhere. See the recent articles about Copilot in Notepad, failing to start because you aren't signed in with your Microsoft Account. We are in a future that nobody wanted.

> We are in a future that nobody wanted. Nor deserved.

Then why is it the future we have?

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

#98
Remember the other day when a bunch of yous were making fun of zig moving away from GitHub? Now suddenly you all say this is not the future you wanted.

Everyday you opt in to get wrecked by Microsoft.

You all do realize you all could, for a change, learn something and never again touch anything Microsoft related?

Fool me once...

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

#99
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They were talking about prioritizing migration into Azure for a long while now. Not sure this incident today is related. https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a... And coincidentally, an early CircleCI engineer wrote an article about GitHub Action (TLDR: don't use GitHub Action for CI/CD!) https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-act... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4690849…

> TLDR: don't use GitHub Action for CI/CD!

You should reach the same conclusion by trying to use it for this purpose, but also indeed for any purpose at all. Incidents that make you unable to deploy making all your CD efforts pointless are only the cherry on top.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

#100

Can someone in GitHub senior leadership please start paying attention and reprioritise towards actually delivering a product that's at least relatively reliable? I moved my company over to GH enterprise last year (from AzDO) and I'm considering moving us away to another vendor altogether as a result of the constant partial outages. Things that used to "just work" now are slow in the UI, and GH actions fail to schedul…

Maybe take the initiative and move your own first? It definitely would have a bigger effect than begging here.
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