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One thought: GitHub is basically a bunch of very complicated interconnected databases, no? I mean, to some extent all large web companies are, but GitHub much m
by fwlr 3y ago
One thought: GitHub is basically a bunch of very complicated interconnected databases, no? I mean, to some extent all large web companies are, but GitHub much more than most. Any failure is going to be, in some sense, a database failure.
Another thought: this could speak to a critical weakness in GitHub’s database team. Maybe they hired a lot of bad developers to the database team at the same time, maybe a bad culture took root in the database wing’s management team.
- vb-8448 3y agoLooking at the issue details, I'll guess they have "poor ops practices": - 9th may: during a deployment, rollback didn't work - 10th may: a recently deployed function killed the database - 11th may: failover didn't work