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Github: Investigating an increased number of unicorns

50 points by hunvreus 13y ago

munimkazia 13y ago
Oh well.. Time to take that coffee break
- mahmud 13y ago
  It will be a very long one. I have been idle for the last 2 hours.
- zalew 13y ago
  a break from reading hn?
  - munimkazia 13y ago
    Heh, you caught me there. I don't actually work on long stretches. I usually check HN, Twitter, reddit after every 15-20 minutes of work. I can't concentrate for longer than that.
brbcoding 13y ago
I've gotten the unicorn several times today, actually. http://i.imgur.com/7Btc4LY.png http://i.imgur.com/7Btc4LY.png
camus 13y ago
what's up with unicorns anyway ? i dont get it. Did i miss a reference to something ?
- jbrooksuk 13y ago
  Brony reference perhaps?
  - lmm 13y ago
    Doesn't look very MLP-ish in expression. I'd suspect the Invisible Pink Unicorn, except that this one's, well, visible. Perhaps a Robot Unicorn Attack reference?
    - jbrooksuk 13y ago
      Maybe it's the Unicorn instances running on their servers?
- evilduck 13y ago
  Github likely uses it because: http://unicorn.bogomips.org/ http://unicorn.bogomips.org/ Why that project chose the name unicorn is another question though.
  - benwoody 13y ago
    Yep! And here is a blog post on how Github uses Unicorns: https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn
- mdisraeli 13y ago
  As the above link (http://i.imgur.com/7Btc4LY.png http://i.imgur.com/7Btc4LY.png) shows, they display a picture of a unicorn on their error pages. I wouldn't ready any more into it than I'd read into a rabbit with pancakes on it's head (http://uwcs.co.uk/static/img/404.jpg http://uwcs.co.uk/static/img/404.jpg)
- frugalfirbolg 13y ago
  Not sure, but I thought when I looked at the charts that the spikes to higher latency and exception rates looked like unicorn horns poking over the horizon.
- deleted 13y ago
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- afarrell 13y ago
  Perhaps they are Scottish? The unicorn is a national animal of Scotland.
  - lotsofcows 13y ago
    Well, it's on the coat of arms. I suspect if you asked the average Scot what the national animal was they'd say Golden Eagle or Stag.
weavie 13y ago
Looks like they're running out of hard drive space.
gdelente 13y ago
Github is using Unicorn as their web server. If you face the 502 error page (https://github.com/502 https://github.com/502 with the Unicorn) that only means that the Unicorn worker your request was send too took too much time to process it, and was killed. https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn Nothing crazy.
adamlj 13y ago
$ git push origin master error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://github.com/ https://github.com/[..].git/info/refs fatal: HTTP request failed Is it just me or has this happend a few too many times the last months? edit: My push got through, but now I'm getting the Unicorn again..
ziko 13y ago
Witty attempt to be funny but the reality is that their service which isn't free is down. I don't see the funny side.
- dalore 13y ago
  I don't think they were trying to be funny. I think it's just jargon talk. I work with unicorns all day and this didn't strike me as an attempt at humour, more as a technical description of what is going on.
  - nosequel 13y ago
    When storage availability is degraded and I can't even clone my repositories (not using the web interface at all) it is pretty enraging to see the status page and twitter account talking about angry unicorns. I get that ruby devs understand this, but not all of us who use Github know or care about them using Unicorn as their webserver. It seems to us like they are trying to be cute and funny at a poor time.
  - qwerty_asdf 13y ago
    I agree. It's a perfectly cromulent description of the problem at hand.

50 points by hunvreus 13y ago

munimkazia 13y ago

Oh well.. Time to take that coffee break

mahmud 13y ago
It will be a very long one. I have been idle for the last 2 hours.
zalew 13y ago
a break from reading hn?
- munimkazia 13y ago
  Heh, you caught me there. I don't actually work on long stretches. I usually check HN, Twitter, reddit after every 15-20 minutes of work. I can't concentrate for longer than that.

brbcoding 13y ago

I've gotten the unicorn several times today, actually. http://i.imgur.com/7Btc4LY.png http://i.imgur.com/7Btc4LY.png

camus 13y ago

what's up with unicorns anyway ? i dont get it. Did i miss a reference to something ?

jbrooksuk 13y ago
Brony reference perhaps?
- lmm 13y ago
  Doesn't look very MLP-ish in expression. I'd suspect the Invisible Pink Unicorn, except that this one's, well, visible. Perhaps a Robot Unicorn Attack reference?
  - jbrooksuk 13y ago
    Maybe it's the Unicorn instances running on their servers?
evilduck 13y ago
Github likely uses it because: http://unicorn.bogomips.org/ http://unicorn.bogomips.org/ Why that project chose the name unicorn is another question though.
- benwoody 13y ago
  Yep! And here is a blog post on how Github uses Unicorns: https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn
mdisraeli 13y ago
As the above link (http://i.imgur.com/7Btc4LY.png http://i.imgur.com/7Btc4LY.png) shows, they display a picture of a unicorn on their error pages. I wouldn't ready any more into it than I'd read into a rabbit with pancakes on it's head (http://uwcs.co.uk/static/img/404.jpg http://uwcs.co.uk/static/img/404.jpg)
frugalfirbolg 13y ago
Not sure, but I thought when I looked at the charts that the spikes to higher latency and exception rates looked like unicorn horns poking over the horizon.
deleted 13y ago
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afarrell 13y ago
Perhaps they are Scottish? The unicorn is a national animal of Scotland.
- lotsofcows 13y ago
  Well, it's on the coat of arms. I suspect if you asked the average Scot what the national animal was they'd say Golden Eagle or Stag.

weavie 13y ago

Looks like they're running out of hard drive space.

gdelente 13y ago

Github is using Unicorn as their web server. If you face the 502 error page (https://github.com/502 https://github.com/502 with the Unicorn) that only means that the Unicorn worker your request was send too took too much time to process it, and was killed. https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn Nothing crazy.

adamlj 13y ago

$ git push origin master error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://github.com/ https://github.com/[..].git/info/refs fatal: HTTP request failed Is it just me or has this happend a few too many times the last months? edit: My push got through, but now I'm getting the Unicorn again..

ziko 13y ago

Witty attempt to be funny but the reality is that their service which isn't free is down. I don't see the funny side.

dalore 13y ago
I don't think they were trying to be funny. I think it's just jargon talk. I work with unicorns all day and this didn't strike me as an attempt at humour, more as a technical description of what is going on.
- nosequel 13y ago
  When storage availability is degraded and I can't even clone my repositories (not using the web interface at all) it is pretty enraging to see the status page and twitter account talking about angry unicorns. I get that ruby devs understand this, but not all of us who use Github know or care about them using Unicorn as their webserver. It seems to us like they are trying to be cute and funny at a poor time.
- qwerty_asdf 13y ago
  I agree. It's a perfectly cromulent description of the problem at hand.