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This is slowly becoming a weekly occurrence ever since Microsoft entered the picture... https://www.githubstatus.com/ https://www.githubstatus.com/

by lprd 6y ago

kenhwang 6y ago
I remember it being a weekly occurrence before Microsoft as well. edit: though their historical data doesn't back it up. It's just a 2020 thing it seems; coincidentally picked up right near the middle of February which correlates way too closely with the beginning of COVID.
- Insanity 6y ago
  correlation != causation though.
  - kzrdude 6y ago
    Fortunately, otherwise covid outbreaks might be caused by github outages
  - avancemos 6y ago
    And yet (Correlation != causation) != (!causation)
  - p0llard 6y ago
    The whole "correlation does not imply causation" thing is completely misunderstood. The issue is with the meaning of the word "imply"; when used in the formal sense as it appears is Classical Logic, correlation does indeed not imply causation. In common parlance however, "imply" is often used to mean "provides evidence for", and correlation can indeed provide (potentially strong) evidence for a hypothesised causal link; the problem lies in people reading "correlation does not imply causation", assuming the informal meaning of "imply", and then going on to reject any notion of causation which uses observed correlation as evidence. Pretty much every empirical science uses notions of correlation (in its various formal statistical guises) to provide support for causation, indeed to reject such reasoning would be to invalidate huge swathes of mainstream accepted science; half the battle in these instances is making the leap from correlation to causation in a manner which is considered scientifically sound.
- mukgupta 6y ago
  Might be a side-effect of working remotely because of covid
- jopsen 6y ago
  I recall it happening many years ago too.. but GitHub seemed to eventually sort it out, I suspect they will this time too.
stunt 6y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with Microsoft acquisition. Perhaps they even have more compute power available since then. But, they are moving much faster in recent years. They've added a lot of new features.
huffmsa 6y ago
It really has been. Hopefully it's just because they're continuing to migrate systems from their previous host to Azure.

This is slowly becoming a weekly occurrence ever since Microsoft entered the picture... https://www.githubstatus.com/ https://www.githubstatus.com/

by lprd 6y ago

This is slowly becoming a weekly occurrence ever since Microsoft entered the picture... https://www.githubstatus.com/ https://www.githubstatus.com/

kenhwang 6y ago

I remember it being a weekly occurrence before Microsoft as well. edit: though their historical data doesn't back it up. It's just a 2020 thing it seems; coincidentally picked up right near the middle of February which correlates way too closely with the beginning of COVID.

Insanity 6y ago
correlation != causation though.
- kzrdude 6y ago
  Fortunately, otherwise covid outbreaks might be caused by github outages
- avancemos 6y ago
  And yet (Correlation != causation) != (!causation)
- p0llard 6y ago
  The whole "correlation does not imply causation" thing is completely misunderstood. The issue is with the meaning of the word "imply"; when used in the formal sense as it appears is Classical Logic, correlation does indeed not imply causation. In common parlance however, "imply" is often used to mean "provides evidence for", and correlation can indeed provide (potentially strong) evidence for a hypothesised causal link; the problem lies in people reading "correlation does not imply causation", assuming the informal meaning of "imply", and then going on to reject any notion of causation which uses observed correlation as evidence. Pretty much every empirical science uses notions of correlation (in its various formal statistical guises) to provide support for causation, indeed to reject such reasoning would be to invalidate huge swathes of mainstream accepted science; half the battle in these instances is making the leap from correlation to causation in a manner which is considered scientifically sound.
mukgupta 6y ago
Might be a side-effect of working remotely because of covid
jopsen 6y ago
I recall it happening many years ago too.. but GitHub seemed to eventually sort it out, I suspect they will this time too.

stunt 6y ago

I don't think it has anything to do with Microsoft acquisition. Perhaps they even have more compute power available since then. But, they are moving much faster in recent years. They've added a lot of new features.

huffmsa 6y ago

It really has been. Hopefully it's just because they're continuing to migrate systems from their previous host to Azure.