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Either this is Ruby on Rails in all of its glory, or their infrastructure and ops need a lot of attention.

GitHub is definitely down more often in the last couple of years though. It's noticeable. Hope they figure it out.

We're also running a large rails app and I can't remember a single downtime caused by rails itself, it's always been some db, network, cloud or business logic issue. Rails is pretty far down the list of the issues you encounter.

There is a lot more to fail before the web worker that can be scaled indefinitely by putting more machines to respond behind a reverse proxy server.

Things like the database or random microservices that implement the death star architecture.

Sure, and my comment doesn't exclude it. I wonder what's truly the weakest link.

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