IT'S HAPPENING
GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY
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@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
