Wtf is going on at Github? They're having outages almost every other day.
August had 11 incidents it seems. September already has 3.
August had 11 incidents it seems. September already has 3.
There's definitely been a noticeable decrease in reliability since MS took over. They've introduced many features, which is appreciated, but products like Actions are notoriously unreliable and flaky.
In comparison to GitHub which for a service to have tons of outages a week is quite atrocious for reliability.
But somehow it is acceptable to tolerate GitHub's ridiculous uptime record, but of course, on HN and in wider tech circles, a different standard of uptime is applied here to GitHub despite it being known that it has fallen over much more times than Twitter / X has done for years, week after week.
Until the next time GitHub goes down again. Probably won't be long anyway.
Fail Whale is a thing tho, remarkable for frequent sightings in the seas of Twitter.
If Twitter / X went down every week like GitHub is currently doing for years, they would be called out for that, immediately. But here we have GitHub; a centralized service having over 100M+ active users and their record of uptime is far worse than Twitter / X's and it is given a pass each time it falls over every week.
By that standard, we should not be accepting GitHub's ridiculous uptime history and it has been found that GitHub is far more unreliable than most services including Twitter / X but somehow right here, GitHub is not falling apart or seen as unreliable, especially with having more than 5 incidents in one month for years?
Vast majority of engineers I know aren't even on it and often haven't heard of it.
I think Blind is a data point, but its one of many, and certainly not definitive in my opinion
It certainly is a misery-loves-company community. But I have found them to be the most honest representation of a company and its tech and management practices. It is also a reliable source of compensation data.
For example, I look at Meta's reviews there and that matches my experience. Nobody cares about their apps. All people care about is performance reviews with fake impact. That was exactly my experience in the company.
I've found its accurate for Meta / Microsoft / Google / Apple / Netflix / Amazon. Having worked at Apple for half a decade, it seemed (mostly) accurate.
I have found it less accurate for other companies that are big and desirable but not nearly as sought after to work for in the last decade. For startups or smaller companies, its not the best data point
Don't know where I'd put GitHub, maybe the signal to noise ratio is closer to one of the big companies than not, however my current employer has a Blind channel and its not very accurate to my experience
Do really "serious" people use this?