Microsoft needs to get a grip on this situation as the parent company. Their golden goose acquisition is about to become persona non grata if these outages continue.
Now it’s scheduled to fall over in about 6 months and everyone is freaking out again. It’s not new features that are hurting us, it’s the existing core product line. All the new stuff is built on horizontally sharded DBs from the get-go.
Needless to say, self hosting can be more reliable but you'll probably end up dedicating a lot of resources to building that out and supporting it
Not difficult, not hard to maintain. Worked fine for our ~500 projects (each with pipelines/ci|cd) and ~100 devs.
I believe people when they tell me they've managed it without major problems, but clearly they're the 10x developers of the self-hosted world, because the people I work with seem to find it hard - and that is not a slight on them, because clearly even Github can't do so much better!