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This is reaching an unacceptable level of performance. There isn't a week that work isn't interrupted by GH.
by indianhippie 5mo ago
This is reaching an unacceptable level of performance. There isn't a week that work isn't interrupted by GH.
- enraged_camel 5mo agoI would say we are way past unacceptable.
- lbourdages 5mo agoIt's been unacceptable for months, but now it's at the level of "we should actively look for alternatives".
- cenal 5mo agoAny centralized solution like GitHub is going to suffer the same fate as vibe coding chokes these services. The only option to have high uptime is to self host and most organizations can't do that easily. Time will tell if GitHub can scale up enough to meet demand.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoIt's a nice thought but I think the revealed preference from the history of the internet is that people actually only want centralised services, no matter what they say they want. People love to clown on the fediverse because of having to choose a server. Which is no different from email. I guess the difference is that their ISP used to give them email.
- ozgrakkurt 5mo agoNot really. It is possible to implement systems that handle a lot more scale than github has. This is proven by systems that exist today. It might be hard to create such systems using ruby and microslop AI management though
- petcat 5mo agoAI agents have changed the scalability properties of basically the entire internet. It used to be that GitHub could rely on a finite number of people interacting with their platform in real human ways in real observable patterns. So I'm assuming that they scale for those patterns, and optimize for the UI and UX hotspots. But now everyone's got a moltbot running 24/7, sometimes many, and it's completely overloading a lot of services. Especially services like GitHub which are very much agent-centric nowadays.
- dingnuts 5mo ago[dead]
- DetroitThrow 5mo ago>AI agents have changed the scalability properties of basically the entire internet. Why is GH the only service provider seeing such consistently bad availability then? Everyone has had to scale massively all the time, if GH is choosing moltbots capacity over basic availability for the rest of the humans, they have made the wrong choice.
- mert-kurttutan 5mo agoSome people really abuse the f out of the system in a way optimized to take github down. Like they push every minute or for every commit instead of with certain time intervals (e.g. a single push a few times a day for each repo). I follow some of the accounts that run 24/7 agent sesssion. Their projects are not even that novel for the number of commits that appear on the profile. Many of the commits have the log of beads, claude session etc (no change to the actual code). Some of them are ports of some projects to another language. AI surely will increase the productivity, but the waste and noise that some people are willing to commit ....
- tardedmeme 5mo agoIt's not new, it's just a DoS, which is a serious crime, just report the attacker to the police if in your country, or block their IP if not. If done accidentally, it's likely not a crime but the police will still scare them to stop doing it.
- Hamuko 5mo agoThings are a lot better in Europe. I stopped working hours before this incident started, and I can't really remember any major work-stopping indicents in the past months. I only remember once trying to do hobby stuff in the evening that was impacted recently.
- baq 5mo agoA week? You're going to be happy with more than a day without an incident. I lost track which Monday morning PST in a row this is.
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