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What's the reason these Git services have so many issues all the time?

by nik736 5y ago

cerved 5y ago
possibly Azure?
- danuker 5y ago
  Doesn't look like it, unless the status-page update is also affected :) https://status.azure.com/en-us/status https://status.azure.com/en-us/status
  - 8draco8 5y ago
    It seems that status pages never work properly in those kind of situations. The only reliable source of information seems to be twitter and HN
    - Manozco 5y ago
      Saying that twitter is the only source of truth for something usually means that this something is utterly broken... :D
      - atatatat 5y ago
        ...or you're in the mind of your user.
    - yuriko 5y ago
      What if Twitter has an outage... Reminds me of the time when Twitter had an outage, because an FB outage made people go on Twitter to ask whether FB is down
- MaxBarraclough 5y ago
  As far as I know GitHub doesn't use Azure at all, I think it's still hosted by Carpathia. https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553 https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
  - modo_mario 5y ago
    For github actions .net code and people were brought over from azure devops to replace existing stuff when MS bought it. At least so i've heard
    - bbrree66 5y ago
      .NET code! That is a sure sign that nothing will work. /s
  - koolba 5y ago
    Actions is entirely on Azure.
    - JoyrexJ9 5y ago
      The hosted runners are, the backend and core isn't
makeitdouble 5y ago
Aren't these pretty heavy duty and any issue sticks very prominently ? A ton of companies are using these tools literally 24/7, at most of my jobs Github/Gitlab being down meant most of us would just be spending half of our time faking working (rare are the people who could just do "offline" dev for half a day without any external input/output) Slack could be down it had less impact overall.
- toomanybeersies 5y ago
  You could use that downtime to learn about the variety of ways that git natively supports distributed workflows [1] [1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Workflows https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Distributed-W...
input_sh 5y ago
> We have discovered the source of the errors and have just rolled out a potential fix. We are now monitoring recovery and will update soon. Looks like some code issue from their side.
grumple 5y ago
Just like every company, they sometimes have things break, push out code that doesn't behave as expected, hit limits on various services they weren't aware of, etc. The complexity of technical systems is massive especially when they are constantly changing. It's not helped that these companies have high availability requirements and need to be online 100% of the time even when making updates. Makes me want to do embedded programming.
- toper-centage 5y ago
  I love github as a product but for the past months, issues are a weekly occurance, often multiple times a week, and always in the middle of the day (Europe).
JoyrexJ9 5y ago
GitHub were pretty open about having issues with Bitcoin mining abusing the free compute available via Actions. I think it's an ongoing battle and one which is having a wider platform impact

What's the reason these Git services have so many issues all the time?

by nik736 5y ago

What's the reason these Git services have so many issues all the time?

cerved 5y ago

possibly Azure?

danuker 5y ago
Doesn't look like it, unless the status-page update is also affected :) https://status.azure.com/en-us/status https://status.azure.com/en-us/status
- 8draco8 5y ago
  It seems that status pages never work properly in those kind of situations. The only reliable source of information seems to be twitter and HN
  - Manozco 5y ago
    Saying that twitter is the only source of truth for something usually means that this something is utterly broken... :D
    - atatatat 5y ago
      ...or you're in the mind of your user.
  - yuriko 5y ago
    What if Twitter has an outage... Reminds me of the time when Twitter had an outage, because an FB outage made people go on Twitter to ask whether FB is down
MaxBarraclough 5y ago
As far as I know GitHub doesn't use Azure at all, I think it's still hosted by Carpathia. https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553 https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
- modo_mario 5y ago
  For github actions .net code and people were brought over from azure devops to replace existing stuff when MS bought it. At least so i've heard
  - bbrree66 5y ago
    .NET code! That is a sure sign that nothing will work. /s
- koolba 5y ago
  Actions is entirely on Azure.
  - JoyrexJ9 5y ago
    The hosted runners are, the backend and core isn't

makeitdouble 5y ago

Aren't these pretty heavy duty and any issue sticks very prominently ? A ton of companies are using these tools literally 24/7, at most of my jobs Github/Gitlab being down meant most of us would just be spending half of our time faking working (rare are the people who could just do "offline" dev for half a day without any external input/output) Slack could be down it had less impact overall.

toomanybeersies 5y ago
You could use that downtime to learn about the variety of ways that git natively supports distributed workflows [1] [1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Workflows https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Distributed-W...

input_sh 5y ago

> We have discovered the source of the errors and have just rolled out a potential fix. We are now monitoring recovery and will update soon. Looks like some code issue from their side.

grumple 5y ago

Just like every company, they sometimes have things break, push out code that doesn't behave as expected, hit limits on various services they weren't aware of, etc. The complexity of technical systems is massive especially when they are constantly changing. It's not helped that these companies have high availability requirements and need to be online 100% of the time even when making updates. Makes me want to do embedded programming.

toper-centage 5y ago
I love github as a product but for the past months, issues are a weekly occurance, often multiple times a week, and always in the middle of the day (Europe).

JoyrexJ9 5y ago

GitHub were pretty open about having issues with Bitcoin mining abusing the free compute available via Actions. I think it's an ongoing battle and one which is having a wider platform impact