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Ok, but I thought the business model here was to be the facebook of code repository. And I don't see the later suffering as many outage as the former (maybe bec

Ok, but I thought the business model here was to be the facebook of code repository. And I don't see the later suffering as many outage as the former (maybe because I am not all day long on FB, mind).

TeMPOraL 11y ago
Because people aren't DDOSing Facebook by telling their CI servers to constantly refetch all the dependencies every goddamn build.
- i336_ 11y ago
  Hm. Git clients probably supply some anonymous but consistent identifying information when doing a standard pull... per-client rate limiting, anybody? It's a nice idea[l] at least; practically speaking there's enough bandwidth to keep the current disaster ticking over, so... :(
- mschuster91 11y ago
  NPM and Composer only check for updates and cache locally.