Microslop at it again
Oh, they've gone beyond micro. It's Macroslop now!
GitHub is once again down
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Re: GitHub is once again down
#92Can this downtime be quantified to actual monetary losses?
Re: GitHub is once again down
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I could sorta see a situation where the reality is "we're in the middle of a miserable transition and it'll clean up when we're done" but I don't think anyone has confidence that's all it is at this point.
Even that doesn’t really make sense to me, unless they’ve done it in a way where everything has to move at once. Everywhere I’ve worked, if a migration is causing this much downtime then you kill the migration or slow it down. If every change has a 10% chance of bringing the site down, you only do a change every week or two until you can work out the kinks.
I mean, they are seemingly breaking every week or two so that might be what they are doing.
Re: GitHub is once again down
#94That's just like your Vibe man; can you just copilot your wayout of these problems?
Re: GitHub is once again down
#95The worst part of all this is that GitHub's CTO and VP of Engineering sent out the usual "here's what we'll do to fix things" letter to their larger customers and, without exaggeration, it boiled down to: 1) "Here's a bunch of stuff we already did!" which... clearly isn't working, and 2) "We're continuing our Azure migration." also clearly not working. So needless to say, if you depend on GitHub for critical business…
I could sorta see a situation where the reality is "we're in the middle of a miserable transition and it'll clean up when we're done" but I don't think anyone has confidence that's all it is at this point.
also it should be noted that LinkedIn had a 5 year plan of migrating everything to azure but abandoned it after a year.
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#96Man, a while ago I thought: "It happens often, alright, but every 2 weeks? Sounds like a slight exaggeration." But it really is every 2 weeks, isn't it? If I imagine in a previous job anything production being down every 2 weeks ... phew, would have had to have a few hard talks and course corrections.
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#97So am I the only one thinking that maybe GitHub is succumbing to the weight of AI slop that's coming in from all the vibecoding, clawbots, and other AI workflows?
Re: GitHub is once again down
#98The worst part of all this is that GitHub's CTO and VP of Engineering sent out the usual "here's what we'll do to fix things" letter to their larger customers and, without exaggeration, it boiled down to: 1) "Here's a bunch of stuff we already did!" which... clearly isn't working, and 2) "We're continuing our Azure migration." also clearly not working. So needless to say, if you depend on GitHub for critical business…
ooooh, they're migrating to Azure, now everything makes sense.
they're not just migrating to Azure, they're vibrating to Azure!
Re: GitHub is once again down
#99Do your part; remind people that Github is not git. Git is decentralizable and people should know this.
Re: GitHub is once again down
#100I'm glad I moved over to forgejo. Being selfhosted, the UI loads faster. Most importantly, the thing is always responsive.
As a developer working on Forgejo -- glad you like it!
It hosts all the repositories backing applycreatures, we ran dozens of git projects on the same instance, have teams, you guys did a phenomenal work. I would say it's even easy to customise.
https://foja.applycreatures.com
Edit: it has a wonderful API so I posted the link it may tempt some to ditch MS/Azure hub.