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Github has had stunning stability. I bet their architecture is nontrivial, that dozens of parts of their code are tied intricately to their architecture, and th
by Arnt 8y ago
Github has had stunning stability. I bet their architecture is nontrivial, that dozens of parts of their code are tied intricately to their architecture, and that opensourcing only the bits that will run on typical AMIs or on debian^Wdevuan would be little more than opensourcing helloworld.rb.
- tbrock 8y agoRight and I don’t want to discount that. The scale they’ve achieved and the team that delivered it are incredible but presumably the people who want it to be open source won’t need any of that. They’ll be running it on a raspberry pi, not hosting the Rails or NodeJS repo.
- daxelrod 8y agoYou can already get GitHub in an AMI; it’s called GitHub Enterprise.
- Arnt 8y agoComplete with all the features in today's github.com? Including load balancing, sharding, DDOS protection etc.?
- simula67 8y ago> Github has had stunning stability Has it really ? I remember many threads here on complaining about Github's up time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5808496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5808496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14893441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14893441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984775
- KaiserPro 8y agocompared to gitlab, its a paragon of stability