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actually, I think this time it is the other way around, Azure is more the solution than the problem. Github in the past ran on their own Hardware. That is fine
by Medowar 1mo ago
actually, I think this time it is the other way around, Azure is more the solution than the problem.
Github in the past ran on their own Hardware. That is fine, if your load is predictable and nto changing rapidly. However, the evolution of the past few months/years has shown, that the previous assumptions about growth are now outdated and scaling that capacity on your own metal is not that easy. Hardware has lead times of many weeks, especially in the current situation, datacenter capacity is even longer and more difficult, especially right now.
Choosing not to deal with scaling the hardware is a valid choice in this situation. Yes, Azure is a bunch of servers held together with glue, duct tape and a lot of hope, but I think, the github hardware is not much better at the moment.
- neya 1mo agoAgreed on not hosting things yourself, but, I am not arguing against cloud hosting at all - just Azure. If they just came out and admitted it is a disaster and swallowed their pride and moved their services towards anything else at all - GCP, AWS or whatever else - I think their uptime would significantly improve. Of course, the fundamental problem here is the culture of the company itself. That's harder to fix.
- inigyou 1mo agoRelated: inside perspective on why it's a shitshow https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242
- inigyou 1mo agoA company suffering a spam attack would normally choose to deal with it by banning, and optionally prosecuting, the spammers.