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How does GitHub fix GitHub using GitHub when GitHub is down?
by candiddevmike 5y ago
How does GitHub fix GitHub using GitHub when GitHub is down?
- incel 5y agoThey probably have some sort of development test server. That what I'd do.
- rvz 5y agoObviously they internally self-host a version of GitHub Actions to build GitHub itself. They know how unreliable it is to use the live version to do it.
- sdab 5y agoI don't know what github is doing here, but I've seen this antipattern quite a few times in production at some big name companies...
- watermelon0 5y agoMaybe they use GitHub Enterprise Server to host internal repositories?
- spartanatreyu 5y agoHuh, it just occurred to me that Stack Overflow would still have access to their own database and probably be able to run a copy of it locally. If Stack Overflow went down, they'd still be able to check Stack Overflow to fix their issue.
- botdan 5y agoStack Exchange (and by extension, Stack Overflow) publishes all their data (anonymized) for download and offline usage as part of the Archive.org project. If you wanted, you too could have a copy of it locally to search while the site is down. https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange