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- We're starting to have the conversation of "do we need to replace GitHub as our CI/CD pipeline?"
No idea if/when we decide to pull that bandaid but I think once we can't merge a hot fix into main because of GH being down, it'll be a big org push to replace it.
What's everyone else using? Self hosted Gitlab? Gitea?
by beardedetim - Ah, so that's what the agent meant by summarizing a documentation page as "Unicorn!" I'd thought it was a very colorful hallucination (it's just GitHub's (unicorn-themed) failure page).
I was querying docs to figure out how to set up RAG to query docs locally. Alas.Gathered details on embedding request syntax from Unicorn! · GitHubby peri-cl - This is starting to feel like Twitter. For a variety of reasons, we had a centralized place where everyone of a particular set of persuasions could connect, and this had outsize benefits for the community as a whole. That place is becoming untenable, and with the loss of goodwill and stability, the community’s started to dissipate. But there isn’t one obvious transition candidate, so the diaspora is finding itself spread across a bunch of disparate places and services. The stated need they satisfy (source control with a web interface and some technical features, like pull requests with reviews) will be fulfilled. But those emergent features like a core community and default expectation of where you can find someone will fade. And that is a very real loss for all of us.by Arubis
- Wow they just went into "another" outage
> Update 16:59 UTC - The degradation affecting API Requests, Actions, Git Operations, Issues, Pages, Pull Requests and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
> Update 17:30 UTC - Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
> Update 17:36 UTC - Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
> Update 18:48 UTC - API Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
by tom1337 - The LLM code influx is not the problem. Microsoft mismanagement is: https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/by perks_12
- I recall reading years ago that cloud services were expected to run with a reliability of 3 or 4 '9's and that if they didn't competing services would quickly overtake them in adoption. The industry was supposed to be that cut throat.
Has big tech reached a similar status like banks in that they are "too big to fail" i.e. when they do fail we all just look the other way and say: "well everyone else is out too". Didn't someone recently calculate that GitHub is running at 95%? For comparison the Irish Rail service which is not reliable has 80% of it's trains run on time.
This seems absurd and really challenges a lot of ideas I had about big tech and cloud infrastructure. GitHub seems to have remained the dominant player relative to GitLab etc.
by s_dev - I had a lot of goodwill for GitHub but I think today is the tipping point.
Looking at a unicorn page, I feel this lingering hope that it's transient (like it usually was in the old days) but my mind reassures me it's probably going to be a long full outage again.
The hope is dead.
by khvn26 - I don't understand why Github hasn't solved this problem with pricing updates. My understanding is they are getting hammered with LLM generated code growing their traffic by over an order of magnitude. So why not rate limit non-paying users and charge for whatever scarce resource is being consumed that is causing them to constantly fall-over? This seems like a basic economics problem.by leishman