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> Their engineers look like absolute amateurs allowing for such low class work it results in their customers experiencing industry leading downtime. I gather t
by zvmaz 1mo ago
> Their engineers look like absolute amateurs allowing for such low class work it results in their customers experiencing industry leading downtime.
I gather that you have intimate and deep knowledge on the teams and the problems they try to solve there.
- californical 1mo agoIf I own a restaurant and buy bread from a supplier — BreadHub. And 99% of the bread that I get is good but 1% of the loaves, they forgot to add flour. Consistently, for years, they always have loaves missing a key ingredient that I still end up paying for. I can be pretty sure that BreadHub have a pretty major internal issue, and should probably be questioning their competence, regardless of their “scale”, and without any knowledge of the “problems they’re solving”
- tyre 1mo agoI’m not saying users don’t have a right to be pissed or aren’t justified in looking at other options. I’m saying that GH is operating at a huge scale with (probably) lots of technical debt and a forced migration to new infrastructure. I would be (and am) highly critical of leadership. I’m not going to make strong assertions about ICs without knowing their context. I’ve worked at a company with a sterling reputation for engineering excellence where brilliant ICs were kneecapped by poor leadership. I think a lot of us, at one point or another in our careers, have worked with potato leadership that can be short-sighted or political. It isn’t a comment on the engineers.
- selfhoster1312 1mo agoI mean, the leadership brought it on themselves. For a few years they encouraged sloperating Copilot. Before that, they were encouraging Github Actions usage. Now the scale problems they're facing is because of those 2 actions of theirs. They didn't have to encourage such growth to turn a profit, and they still don't have to provide gratis services to slopware bots providing 0 value for society.
- tryauuum 1mo agoPlease don't do it. Now somebody will come and will try to improve your bread analogy. We will be discussing bread for eons
- CoastalCoder 1mo agoOkay, let's use a car analogy...
- collingreen 1mo agoSo a monad is a lot like a burrito...
- kayfox 1mo agoI see you haven't experienced USFoods and Sysco.
- Freedom2 1mo agoI don't think this is an apt analogy. The bread makeup is still there, as far as I'm aware, no users have lost any data or are missing "key" ingredients. An outage is more like a shipping issue with the supplier, if it's owned wholly by them.
- selfhoster1312 1mo agoAre you saying the dough is fine but 1% of the batch wasn't cooked? Or rather, that 1% of batches isn't cooked, taking your entire downstream activity down until a new batch arrives?
- shakna 1mo agoOkay, let's go with shipping. Current global stat for containers going missing? About 0.0005%. If any single company reached 1%, they would instantly be out of business, because that is not remotely acceptable, at a global scale.