[horsemessiah]

Wtf is going on at Github? They're having outages almost every other day.

August had 11 incidents it seems. September already has 3.

https://www.githubstatus.com/history

[anon____]

They are just honest about reporting these events. Others don't, so they look better. It's easy to lie without getting caught, because most people don't experience most outages personally.

[rvz]

If this was Twitter / X having these outages every single week, the entirety of HN would come out and scream 'Twitter / X falling apart!', 'It is crumbling', 'Its grinding to a halt again!'

In comparison to GitHub which for a service to have tons of outages a week is quite atrocious for reliability.

But somehow it is acceptable to tolerate GitHub's ridiculous uptime record, but of course, on HN and in wider tech circles, a different standard of uptime is applied here to GitHub despite it being known that it has fallen over much more times than Twitter / X has done for years, week after week.

Until the next time GitHub goes down again. Probably won't be long anyway.

[imiric]

Eh, that's giving MS too much credit. They're as honest as most corporations are with status pages. I've experienced outages and error pages many times while the status page showed green across the board.

There's definitely been a noticeable decrease in reliability since MS took over. They've introduced many features, which is appreciated, but products like Actions are notoriously unreliable and flaky.

[quadrature]

No, they didn't have such a high incidence of events prior to the tech layoffs. something material has changed.

[nine_zeros]

Lots of attrition of good engineers. Management is not held accountable for failures, only engineers are scapegoated. As a result, remaining engineers are disgruntled and don't care.

Source: https://www.teamblind.com/company/GitHub/reviews

[no_wizard]

Blind is an echo chamber, and attracts a certain type of person, for sure.

Vast majority of engineers I know aren't even on it and often haven't heard of it.

I think Blind is a data point, but its one of many, and certainly not definitive in my opinion

[numpad0]

Businesses that can turn profit from monkeys as employees are best businesses. Running such businesses on tightly standardized PhDs is best for its own survival. So that's what everyone does to various degrees, and it's also such a horrible thinking.

[tester756]

This site feels like a terrible joke

Do really "serious" people use this?

[sgt]

They are doing rapid deployment.

[TylerE]

They run on Azure, don’t they?

[rickette]

Only partially I believe, there quite famous for running their own hardware (metal cloud). I think some new features like Actions, Codespaces and of course Copilot run on Azure.

[baz00]

I think at this point my hypothesis is definitely erring towards them being hopeless goons.