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Comment by nik736 | Hacker News Reader

What's the reason these Git services have so many issues all the time?

GitHub were pretty open about having issues with Bitcoin mining abusing the free compute available via Actions. I think it's an ongoing battle and one which is having a wider platform impact

> We have discovered the source of the errors and have just rolled out a potential fix. We are now monitoring recovery and will update soon.

Looks like some code issue from their side.

Aren't these pretty heavy duty and any issue sticks very prominently ?

A ton of companies are using these tools literally 24/7, at most of my jobs Github/Gitlab being down meant most of us would just be spending half of our time faking working (rare are the people who could just do "offline" dev for half a day without any external input/output)

Slack could be down it had less impact overall.

You could use that downtime to learn about the variety of ways that git natively supports distributed workflows [1]

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Distributed-W...

Just like every company, they sometimes have things break, push out code that doesn't behave as expected, hit limits on various services they weren't aware of, etc.

The complexity of technical systems is massive especially when they are constantly changing. It's not helped that these companies have high availability requirements and need to be online 100% of the time even when making updates.

Makes me want to do embedded programming.

I love github as a product but for the past months, issues are a weekly occurance, often multiple times a week, and always in the middle of the day (Europe).

possibly Azure?

As far as I know GitHub doesn't use Azure at all, I think it's still hosted by Carpathia. https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553

Actions is entirely on Azure.

The hosted runners are, the backend and core isn't

For github actions .net code and people were brought over from azure devops to replace existing stuff when MS bought it. At least so i've heard

Doesn't look like it, unless the status-page update is also affected :)

https://status.azure.com/en-us/status

It seems that status pages never work properly in those kind of situations. The only reliable source of information seems to be twitter and HN

Saying that twitter is the only source of truth for something usually means that this something is utterly broken... :D

...or you're in the mind of your user.

What if Twitter has an outage...

Reminds me of the time when Twitter had an outage, because an FB outage made people go on Twitter to ask whether FB is down

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