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Or last week's "If you use merge queue, oopsie, we accidentally destroyed your trunk", which also failed silently.

I was surprised that incident didn’t seem to get as much attention since that was a pretty major data corruption bug, but I guess it was a much smaller scope of impacted repos/customers than a lot of these availability issues?

Without reaching for my tin foil hat, I have a feeling MS is able to suppress these incidents somehow, because yeah, that one was pretty bad.

Wrapping my face in tinfoil: across the board, Amazon, Microsoft, GitHub, Anthropic and OpenAI, I’m seeing a lot of top-level service issues that sound an awful lot like code hitting production that hasn’t been fully tested.

Breaking buttons on the website is one thing, kinda, but Enterprise used to mean a certain degree of robustness and seriousness in product management.

Devs are expected to ship slop 10x faster. The AI tools genuinely help a bit, like maybe 2x, but the 10x "improvement" comes from not thinking about anything else than shipping your assigned features, not testing your code carefully, not getting proper code reviews, not dogfooding your stuff, and releasing carelessly.

Merge queues are not as frequently used… ~2000 PRs affected over 4 hours. I reckon that’s on the order of 10 commits per tenant. It’s a feature with low traction, probably because it creates more problems than it solves.

Merge queues are great.

The bug only affected repos using merge queues AND squash/rebase merging (instead of the default merge commit)

Definitely got attention during the prod outage at my work. I’m going to find another alternative, I’m sick of this terrible uptime.

We happen to build the perfect solution to avoiding GitHubs Merge Queue - ours :)

It’s also massively more performant

https://trunk.io/merge-queue

while external merge queues offer a ton more features, i wouldn't describe any of them as 'perfect' based on the simple fact the UX is bolted on. github continues to display their native UI components for merging, and users are forced to interact via arcane commands in comments or external CLIs/webpages. not ideal!

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