IT'S HAPPENING
GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY
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@0xabad1dea they misunderstood and their SLA says nine 5’s instead
@0xabad1dea ...and nobody's actually leaving though, to speak of. The network effects are too strong. I prefer #codeberg myself, BTW
#github #OpenSource
How very dare you! 89.43% still contains a 9.
@0xabad1dea We have reached the singularity
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Incident/day > 1; ^_^
I never had use for it myself, but I am gobsmacked how many people and projects continued to use Github after Microsoft bought it. Everything piece of bullshit that has happened since was foreseeable and foreseen.
@0xabad1dea Soon the reason I don't use Github will be "I can't access it" rather than "I don't use centralised services or Git".
@0xabad1dea people in the comments channeling their inner Gul Madred "there are two nines."
Has Github tried turning it off and then on again? 5 times? Its probably all windows and azure based now since the takeover, so they need to boot the hell out of it all i bet.
The whole back end is also probably vibe coded by copilot. I strongly advise people migrate their projects to greener pastures that don't feed the MS attack chain.
if you live in the ~~codeburger~~ codeberg land nothing ever happens (and it's good)
@0xabad1dea fake, I can see 2 nines right there. :P
@0xabad1dea Nobody ever got fired by being bought by Microsoft...wait!
@0xabad1dea Like Copilot, github is Only For Entertainment.
@0xabad1dea this is beautiful! Thanks for sharing and giving us hope!
@0xabad1dea soon we try to keep track of percentage down time instead of uptime 🤣
@0xabad1dea WDYM, 89,9 has TWO nines!
@0xabad1dea 4 eights, here we goooooooo!
@0xabad1dea they're working toward 5 nines - 9.9999% uptime
@0xabad1dea The other day I got a 500 error just by creating a new issue with 5 text lines, that's how bad things have gotten. (Never happened before)
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Githib is shooting for "nine fives of reliability"
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@0xabad1dea THERE ARE ZERO NINES
starting to think Microsoft has a humiliation kink
@0xabad1dea numbers are not my forte. I'll admit I'm an idiot. what in the name of crimes against statistics is going on here?
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- major web service providers generally sign agreements with their largest customers to provide "five nines" of uptime: 99.999%.
- Github, one of the most important pieces of infrastructure for computer programming in general, has been getting increasingly unstable over the last several months.
- Github's own official downtime tracker is extremely, uh, conservative, because the more they officially acknowledge as downtime, the more trouble they're in with major customers. But even by their rosiest estimates, they've lost several nines
- This third party tracker concludes that Github has dropped below 90%, that is to say, to zero nines, for the last 90 days. Note that this is counting any big observable problem as downtime, even if the entire site isn't completely dead.
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@0xabad1dea @Netraven and as someone who has been one of those 'very large' customers, I can tell you for fact that every cloud provider will use every single excuse in the book and every method they possibly can to straight up lie about their uptime.
The number one cheat? "Oh, that wasn't an official incident. So not covered." Number two, "you didn't file a ticket when it happened."
@0xabad1dea oh thank you very much, that makes sense.
What do you mean? I see two nines right there in the middle.
@0xabad1dea "We did it, boys!"
@0xabad1dea @zazzoo those LLMs sure are helping!
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@0xabad1dea Five nines (0.99999%)
@0xabad1dea Paraphrasing Queeg, "it's got a nine in it".
I've worked for enough companies that I've seen teams who couldn't even manage nine fives.
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@mogi ok maybe codeberg is doing alright lol
@0xabad1dea I wonder at what point they will declare Uptime Bankruptcy and start fresh?
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"What are you talking about I see two nines right there." John Microsoft probably
@0xabad1dea microsoft can't devops.
@0xabad1dea I mean technically, they still have 2 nines there... 🤔 😅
@0xabad1dea its probably running on #windows now go https://codeberg.org
@0xabad1dea Microsoft would argue that 89.91% actually has 2 9s
@0xabad1dea Looking at it positively, they do have 4 eights of reliability.
@0xabad1dea sloptastic news!
@0xabad1dea i mean it does have nines in it, so it’s the slop version of two nines
@0xabad1dea i really don't understand how and real companies still use microsoft products. and i try really hard. i build software infrastructure and do tool selection for developer teams for a living. my previous company used microsoft dynamic 365 as their CRM. they paid about 4 million per year euros for it (significant expense given the company size) and they threw away their own solution in favor of that. yet, the thing was down and unusable (as in whole departments of the company cannot do their work at all and we were bleeding hundreds of thousands in real money every few hours) at least once every two months! longest outages lasted 2 or 3 days. and that's not even counting all the consultancy expenses to manage and customize that thing because there was no internal know-how to do that. the company before that switched from one cloud to another for no apparent practical reason with disastrous consequences for development of the product... these kinds of management decisions are entirely irrational and the only way i can explain them is that companies like microsoft and google invest more in kickbacks to decision makers than into development of their products.
@0xabad1dea I love that I am reading this while waiting for GitHub to fix their API throwing HTTP 503 errors :)
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@0xabad1dea Also, I note, an issue that never made it to their status page!
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@mini yeah, the official status page is *comically* conservative because of misaligned incentives.
@0xabad1dea I'm sure CoPilot would agree that 9.9999% is much easier to accomplish than 99.999%, an it would still be 5 9s
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To make matters (much) worse, copilot seems to be very reliable ...
@0xabad1dea how is it zero nines - there are two nines in 89.91 🤣
