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So you're telling me that the next GitHub outage could take out my dev environment and give me an afternoon off? Time to convince management that we need to swi
by hackthememes 5y ago
So you're telling me that the next GitHub outage could take out my dev environment and give me an afternoon off? Time to convince management that we need to switch to Codespaces!
- Ashanmaril 5y agoIt's funny timing to announce this the day after a major outage that took down practically the entire platform
- ramraj07 5y agoIt’s very likely them doing pre rollout operations for this feature is actually what caused that outage though.
- boardwaalk 5y agoYou say “though” as if it absolves them. If they break basic requirements of a Git host like fetch and push while working on this extra feature that’s on them.
- NoahKAndrews 5y agoThey're not announcing a new feature with this blog post, are they?
- ramraj07 5y agoThey released codespaces to enterprise customers
- wolverine876 5y agoThere are different risks, but there is not necessarily more risk. Does Codespaces have lower or higher than the availability risks of your current environment?
- bratbag 5y agoMy current environment is my laptop, which I would also need to access codespaces. So by extension, codespaces is more risky than my current environment.
- randyrand 5y agoIf you've never had these issues, this product is probably not for you. The question is, how much time do you spend on dev environment issues per year? When I was at one of the FAANGs, our dev enviroment took about 1hr to install, and you had to redo it everytime you switched platform / version (about every week). We spent ~50 hours per year managing our local dev enviroment. probably more in reality.
- gray_-_wolf 5y ago> The question is, how much time do you spend on dev environment issues per year? Definitely not little. But at the same time, I usually learn a lot about how stuff works during that. Which I like to think makes me better at helping other people debug weird shit.
- SamuelAdams 5y agoI’ve had corporate laptops get BSOD’d because a sysadmin pushed a bad GPO rule that worked fine on 99% of their clients but butchered the developer laptops. Another fun one was when an org was rolling out CarbonBlack on all endpoints and decided to block all Java. Because apparently Java in the web browser is a security threat. They blocked 30 devs Java runtimes as a result. So there was an entire afternoon wasted for those guys. To a corporation the risks of GitHub being down might be ok. Plus this will drastically increase on boarding devs to an existing project.
- 16bytes 5y agoI would frame it as, your current dev env is your specific laptop, and codespaces requires any laptop. It's certainly reasonable to think that a SaaS can approach availability time of a single piece of hardware. Furthermore, it appears that engineering github/github to work in codespaces helped their local provisioning as well.
- rpmisms 5y agoCurrent place of employment uses a similar system, power outages are quite pleasant.
- redisman 5y agoMainframe's down again boss!
- smetj 5y agothis gave me a good laugh, thank you!