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#3Incident url: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zbpwygxwb3gw
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#4So now I am expecting a major GitHub Actions incident (worst case, the whole of GitHub) to go down every single month at least once. Last time this went down was last month. [0]
I now doubt if they can consistently manage more than a month without a major incident like this one.
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#5So now I am expecting a major GitHub Actions incident (worst case, the whole of GitHub) to go down every single month at least once. Last time this went down was last month. [0] I now doubt if they can consistently manage more than a month without a major incident like this one. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26666843
Easy to explain. They switched to the MS Azure cloud for actions.
You won't get high availability from Microsoft you are used to as from proper cloud services. Plus privacy issues. But it's cheap, in this case for free.
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#6So now I am expecting a major GitHub Actions incident (worst case, the whole of GitHub) to go down every single month at least once. Last time this went down was last month. [0] I now doubt if they can consistently manage more than a month without a major incident like this one. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26666843
Easy to explain. They switched to the MS Azure cloud for actions. You won't get high availability from Microsoft you are used to as from proper cloud services. Plus privacy issues. But it's cheap, in this case for free.
Hopefully this serves as a good dogfooding excecise for MS now and help them improve things.
Every time I tried azure I was disappointed. But that doesn't mean they can't fix it; I bet there are now tons of talented engineers working there. My best wishes for them to up the quality of azure. I think diversity / alternatives are a good thing.
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#7So now I am expecting a major GitHub Actions incident (worst case, the whole of GitHub) to go down every single month at least once. Last time this went down was last month. [0] I now doubt if they can consistently manage more than a month without a major incident like this one. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26666843
Isn't this normal with hosted solutions?
IIRC, GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab.com are all unusable for a few hours at least once a month as far back as I can remember.
Isn't this just commonly accepted as a tradeoff for not having to manage the servers yourself?
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#8So now I am expecting a major GitHub Actions incident (worst case, the whole of GitHub) to go down every single month at least once. Last time this went down was last month. [0] I now doubt if they can consistently manage more than a month without a major incident like this one. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26666843
Easy to explain. They switched to the MS Azure cloud for actions. You won't get high availability from Microsoft you are used to as from proper cloud services. Plus privacy issues. But it's cheap, in this case for free.
I was amused by reports when Microsoft was in talks with Discord that one of the reasons why Microsoft wanted to buy Discord was because they wanted Discord on Azure. Like, was the grand customer acquisition strategy for Azure just acquiring the companies and then migrating over?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Easy to explain. They switched to the MS Azure cloud for actions. You won't get high availability from Microsoft you are used to as from proper cloud services. Plus privacy issues. But it's cheap, in this case for free.
I was amused by reports when Microsoft was in talks with Discord that one of the reasons why Microsoft wanted to buy Discord was because they wanted Discord on Azure. Like, was the grand customer acquisition strategy for Azure just acquiring the companies and then migrating over?
My wife works as an AWS/Azure consultant, and she mentions that in our area it's much more common for the non-technical management to push Azure than it is for technology to choose it. Sounds quite IBM-ish/Oracle-ish.
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#10We build an Electron app for MacOS regularly. We run these builds on Github’s MacOS VMs.
The internet fails to connect when running yarn install about 3 out of every 5 times.
We’ve gotten multiple refunds for this issue, but it’s still a complete mess. Unfortunately we’ve built much of our process around GH Actions... if not I’m sure we would be on CircleCI or TravisCI already. We’ve also considered switching to self-hosted runners.