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I would love to see a chart of traffic to other sites when GitHub goes down. My bet is that HackerNews and Twitter both get significant spikes from all those bo

by kaikai 9y ago

I would love to see a chart of traffic to other sites when GitHub goes down. My bet is that HackerNews and Twitter both get significant spikes from all those bored developers.

emilsedgh 9y ago
Its not like your editor is down.
- mdellabitta 9y ago
  My team was working on merging pull requests when this happened. We might actually be at fault! That would be kinda cool.
  - Aissen 9y ago
    If only you were using a decentralized VCS, you wouldn't have this single point of failure…
    - wooter 9y ago
      but github is honestly so nice. I'll admit in a very subjective way. whats your favorite decentralized vcs?
      - saagarjha 9y ago
        The joke is that git is decentralized–it's just GitHub that's a single point of failure.
        coldcode 9y ago
        We have Gitlab Enterprise and it has trouble scaling.
        sytse 9y ago
        I'm sorry to hear that. GitLab Enterprise Edition should scale fine to 100,000's of users. Are you in touch with our support about this?
        dblessing 9y ago
        Sorry to hear you're having trouble scaling GitLab. We have many organizations running GitLab and successfully scaling to 10's of thousands of users, and GitLab.com which is the largest GitLab installation. As a GitLab Enterprise customer our support team is happy to help you review your scaling problems and resolve them. Please submit a support request at https://support.gitlab.com https://support.gitlab.com.
        coldcode 9y ago
        O crap I meant to say GitHUB Enterprise. That's what has trouble. We also have Gitlab Enterprise and that's fine. Sadly for reasons internal we are mostly stuck with GitHub E.
        sytse 9y ago
        I'm glad to hear that GitLab is working fine for you. And I'm sorry that you feel stuck with GitHub Enterprise. Please know that GitLab has a high fidelity importer https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/importing/import_projects_from_github.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/importing/import_project... and our support team has a lot of experience with assisting people with the migration if the migration is the problem.
        wooter 9y ago
        thats why i asked what his favorite was. just curious to see what the feature differences would be
    - hdhzy 9y ago
      The VCS is decentralized but they made the process centralized.
    - scribu 9y ago
      The problem isn't the VCS part so much as all the code review/project management features of Github. I seem to remember there was a decentralized VCS which included issue tracking besides commits, but it never was mainstream.
      - pyre 9y ago
        Fossil SCM
      - Osiris 9y ago
        https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wi...
        scribu 9y ago
        Yep, that was the one.
      - WorldMaker 9y ago
        There's also plenty of DIY distributed issue tracker tools to keep issue tracking inside a git repo (often as yaml+markdown). I'm still surprised a good one hasn't stepped up with direct GitHub issue/project tool integration+sync, but that should certainly be a possibility.
      - fs111 9y ago
        the linux kernel development works just fine w/o github.
        paulddraper 9y ago
        They use self-hosted git repo and bugzilla. It's not exactly less of a point of failure.
        mdellabitta 9y ago
        I think the spf there is Linus' email account, right?
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- matart 9y ago
  But reviewing, issues, PRs, etc. are. A lot of the planning parts are down.
- alpb 9y ago
  > implying developers spend most of their time in editors.
  - emilsedgh 9y ago
    Well the parent was implying they spend most of their time in Github.
    - alpb 9y ago
      I don't see that implication. I personally spend most of my time on GitHub.
- saagarjha 9y ago
  I wouldn't be surprised if this became an issue in the future, with Atom's popularity on the rise…
tinalumfoil 9y ago
> bored developers Bored? Git's a distributed version control system, so no excuses. Get back to work! But in all seriousness I kind of wish GitHub provided a way to mirror things like issues and PRs so you never have to be fully reliant on one service. Not being able to read these really does make it impossible to get work done offline.
- saagarjha 9y ago
  > have to be fully reliant on one service My inner cynic says that that's probably the reason why they don't provide this service.
- syshum 9y ago
  But they want you to Rely on Github... if they could find away to make Git only work with Github they would in a heart bet. Github is not a open source company, it is not really even a supporter of free software IMO they are a danger to free software for this very reason. They are following the old school Microsoft model of Embrace and Extend... I am waiting to see if they can extinguish,
  - heartbreak 9y ago
    What? Github employs members of the Rails core team including Aaron Patterson. They literally pay for open source software development. I'm sure they employ direct maintainers/contributors to other open source projects as well.
    - eberkund 9y ago
      The Atom editor is widely used and was a major inspiration for VS Code. Electron, which is a GitHub project is also used for countless other projects.
      - yellowapple 9y ago
        "major inspiration for VS Code" Which is a Microsoft product, and Microsoft is the inventor of EEE. Ergo, GitHub is complicit in an EEE attempt. Q.E.D. Case closed. /s
sytse 9y ago
At GitLab.com we're not seeing an increase in usage: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eiz2h7tdnownvfl/Screenshot%202017-07-31%2019.54.14.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/eiz2h7tdnownvfl/Screenshot%202017-... From http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh=5m&orgId=1 http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh... But of course it is hard to mirror your repo to GitLab.com when GitHub.com is down, so maybe other sites are a better measure.
- cmatija 9y ago
  That's our chart of backend sessions / sec for GitLab.com [1]. There's also a chart for frontend sessions [2], please keep in mind that there's a lot of CI / bot sessions on these dashboards. In addition to that there's much other interesting info on our HAProxy Grafana dashboard [3]. In case anyone's interested in even more metrics, there's a bunch of interesting dashboards on our Grafana instance [4]. [1] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh=5m&orgId=1&panelId=5&fullscreen http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh... [2] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh=5m&panelId=7&fullscreen&orgId=1 http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh... [3] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats [4] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/?orgId=1 http://monitor.gitlab.net/?orgId=1
fs111 9y ago
what are you doing on GH all day? you are supposed to _write_ code.
ci5er 9y ago
Uuuh ... Shouldn't they be, you know, developing? Or has GitHub turned into Reddit when I wasn't looking?

by kaikai 9y ago

I would love to see a chart of traffic to other sites when GitHub goes down. My bet is that HackerNews and Twitter both get significant spikes from all those bored developers.

emilsedgh 9y ago

Its not like your editor is down.

mdellabitta 9y ago
My team was working on merging pull requests when this happened. We might actually be at fault! That would be kinda cool.
- Aissen 9y ago
  If only you were using a decentralized VCS, you wouldn't have this single point of failure…
  - wooter 9y ago
    but github is honestly so nice. I'll admit in a very subjective way. whats your favorite decentralized vcs?
    - saagarjha 9y ago
      The joke is that git is decentralized–it's just GitHub that's a single point of failure.
      - coldcode 9y ago
        We have Gitlab Enterprise and it has trouble scaling.
        sytse 9y ago
        I'm sorry to hear that. GitLab Enterprise Edition should scale fine to 100,000's of users. Are you in touch with our support about this?
        dblessing 9y ago
        Sorry to hear you're having trouble scaling GitLab. We have many organizations running GitLab and successfully scaling to 10's of thousands of users, and GitLab.com which is the largest GitLab installation. As a GitLab Enterprise customer our support team is happy to help you review your scaling problems and resolve them. Please submit a support request at https://support.gitlab.com https://support.gitlab.com.
        coldcode 9y ago
        O crap I meant to say GitHUB Enterprise. That's what has trouble. We also have Gitlab Enterprise and that's fine. Sadly for reasons internal we are mostly stuck with GitHub E.
        sytse 9y ago
        I'm glad to hear that GitLab is working fine for you. And I'm sorry that you feel stuck with GitHub Enterprise. Please know that GitLab has a high fidelity importer https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/importing/import_projects_from_github.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/importing/import_project... and our support team has a lot of experience with assisting people with the migration if the migration is the problem.
      - wooter 9y ago
        thats why i asked what his favorite was. just curious to see what the feature differences would be
  - hdhzy 9y ago
    The VCS is decentralized but they made the process centralized.
  - scribu 9y ago
    The problem isn't the VCS part so much as all the code review/project management features of Github. I seem to remember there was a decentralized VCS which included issue tracking besides commits, but it never was mainstream.
    - pyre 9y ago
      Fossil SCM
    - Osiris 9y ago
      https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wi...
      - scribu 9y ago
        Yep, that was the one.
    - WorldMaker 9y ago
      There's also plenty of DIY distributed issue tracker tools to keep issue tracking inside a git repo (often as yaml+markdown). I'm still surprised a good one hasn't stepped up with direct GitHub issue/project tool integration+sync, but that should certainly be a possibility.
    - fs111 9y ago
      the linux kernel development works just fine w/o github.
      - paulddraper 9y ago
        They use self-hosted git repo and bugzilla. It's not exactly less of a point of failure.
      - mdellabitta 9y ago
        I think the spf there is Linus' email account, right?
- deleted 9y ago
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- deleted 9y ago
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matart 9y ago
But reviewing, issues, PRs, etc. are. A lot of the planning parts are down.
alpb 9y ago
> implying developers spend most of their time in editors.
- emilsedgh 9y ago
  Well the parent was implying they spend most of their time in Github.
  - alpb 9y ago
    I don't see that implication. I personally spend most of my time on GitHub.
saagarjha 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this became an issue in the future, with Atom's popularity on the rise…

tinalumfoil 9y ago

> bored developers Bored? Git's a distributed version control system, so no excuses. Get back to work! But in all seriousness I kind of wish GitHub provided a way to mirror things like issues and PRs so you never have to be fully reliant on one service. Not being able to read these really does make it impossible to get work done offline.

saagarjha 9y ago
> have to be fully reliant on one service My inner cynic says that that's probably the reason why they don't provide this service.
syshum 9y ago
But they want you to Rely on Github... if they could find away to make Git only work with Github they would in a heart bet. Github is not a open source company, it is not really even a supporter of free software IMO they are a danger to free software for this very reason. They are following the old school Microsoft model of Embrace and Extend... I am waiting to see if they can extinguish,
- heartbreak 9y ago
  What? Github employs members of the Rails core team including Aaron Patterson. They literally pay for open source software development. I'm sure they employ direct maintainers/contributors to other open source projects as well.
  - eberkund 9y ago
    The Atom editor is widely used and was a major inspiration for VS Code. Electron, which is a GitHub project is also used for countless other projects.
    - yellowapple 9y ago
      "major inspiration for VS Code" Which is a Microsoft product, and Microsoft is the inventor of EEE. Ergo, GitHub is complicit in an EEE attempt. Q.E.D. Case closed. /s

sytse 9y ago

At GitLab.com we're not seeing an increase in usage: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eiz2h7tdnownvfl/Screenshot%202017-07-31%2019.54.14.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/eiz2h7tdnownvfl/Screenshot%202017-... From http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh=5m&orgId=1 http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh... But of course it is hard to mirror your repo to GitLab.com when GitHub.com is down, so maybe other sites are a better measure.

cmatija 9y ago
That's our chart of backend sessions / sec for GitLab.com [1]. There's also a chart for frontend sessions [2], please keep in mind that there's a lot of CI / bot sessions on these dashboards. In addition to that there's much other interesting info on our HAProxy Grafana dashboard [3]. In case anyone's interested in even more metrics, there's a bunch of interesting dashboards on our Grafana instance [4]. [1] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh=5m&orgId=1&panelId=5&fullscreen http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh... [2] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh=5m&panelId=7&fullscreen&orgId=1 http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats?refresh... [3] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/haproxy-stats [4] - http://monitor.gitlab.net/?orgId=1 http://monitor.gitlab.net/?orgId=1

fs111 9y ago

what are you doing on GH all day? you are supposed to _write_ code.

ci5er 9y ago

Uuuh ... Shouldn't they be, you know, developing? Or has GitHub turned into Reddit when I wasn't looking?