> assuming its a distributed service vs one server for a multi-billion$ company also group of humans built this service, so its not gonna be perfect :shrug:
Regardless of any of that, it still is proven to be unreliable. It is also not an excuse to go all in and risk being fully dependent on GitHub (and their services) and tolerate such downtimes and run to HN and complain about it each month.
> companies that use such tools and in trust all the business process to a provided service and do consider an event like this is a blocker should build in contingency plans or accept that there is no real 5-nines of availability more like 90-98%
Then I should see no-one being surprised or complaining about 'GitHub having issues' or 'GitHub is down again' whilst also using it for GitHub actions, pages, issues or pushing their changes and they are not paying for GitHub Enterprise or some higher plan; especially serious open source project like Mozilla, Chromium, etc. That's why they self-host.
Until the next time GitHub goes down again (hopefully that won't be in another month's time).