GitHub availability report: October 2022
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GitHub availability report: October 2022
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Re: GitHub availability report: October 2022
#2Of all the many SaaS vendors I use, GitHub has the worst availability by far.
There isn't a month that goes by without our devs being impacted.
GitHub - please just work on fixing this. Your product is great but your availability is your biggest problem. It's beyond a joke at this point.
Re: GitHub availability report: October 2022
#3I'm not sure about the technical details behind their outages since they're a little vague on that, but it's funny how every Rails developer champions Github as a Ruby on Rails shop as why Rails should continue living on when their availability is some of the worst in the tech scene. Lazy evaluation is great until it's not.
Re: GitHub availability report: October 2022
#4Maybe start moving away from Ruby on Rails. Good web stacks in Golang and Rust do exist and at that scale they're likely the only sensible choices.
How far must the sunk cost fallacy go before something is done?
Re: GitHub availability report: October 2022
#5I'm not sure about the technical details behind their outages since they're a little vague on that, but it's funny how every Rails developer champions Github as a Ruby on Rails shop as why Rails should continue living on when their availability is some of the worst in the tech scene. Lazy evaluation is great until it's not.
You're not sure about the technical details, but it's clearly the technology's fault?
Re: GitHub availability report: October 2022
#6I'm not sure about the technical details behind their outages since they're a little vague on that, but it's funny how every Rails developer champions Github as a Ruby on Rails shop as why Rails should continue living on when their availability is some of the worst in the tech scene. Lazy evaluation is great until it's not.
Isn't it GitHub Actions that has been having the availability problems for a while now? It started having problems after Microsoft acquired GitHub and there has been speculation that it is because it was ported to .NET and Azure. Is codespaces created with Rails?
Re: GitHub availability report: October 2022
#7Of all the many SaaS vendors I use, GitHub has the worst availability by far. There isn't a month that goes by without our devs being impacted. GitHub - please just work on fixing this. Your product is great but your availability is your biggest problem. It's beyond a joke at this point.
I know. They have been very unreliable for years as I have predicted in here [0] and you can see all the times it went down or had intermittent issues [1]. I'm not really surprised to see GitHub become less reliable than someone self-hosting a typical Git server.
This is why it makes no sense going 'all in' on GitHub services.
Re: GitHub availability report: October 2022
#8I'm not sure about the technical details behind their outages since they're a little vague on that, but it's funny how every Rails developer champions Github as a Ruby on Rails shop as why Rails should continue living on when their availability is some of the worst in the tech scene. Lazy evaluation is great until it's not.
Isn't it GitHub Actions that has been having the availability problems for a while now? It started having problems after Microsoft acquired GitHub and there has been speculation that it is because it was ported to .NET and Azure. Is codespaces created with Rails?
It tends to have a lot of abuse where people try to run crypto miners on free github action accounts. Azure has been more stable the past few years and .NET wouldn't have any issues with stability at scale. Likely just a hard problem to solve at the scale they run at.
Re: GitHub availability report: October 2022
#9I'm not sure about the technical details behind their outages since they're a little vague on that, but it's funny how every Rails developer champions Github as a Ruby on Rails shop as why Rails should continue living on when their availability is some of the worst in the tech scene. Lazy evaluation is great until it's not.
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Re: GitHub availability report: October 2022
#10Maybe start moving away from Ruby on Rails. Good web stacks in Golang and Rust do exist and at that scale they're likely the only sensible choices. How far must the sunk cost fallacy go before something is done?
Which Golang or rust web stacks are as good as rails?