Mon and Dad (MS) are (generally) pretty solid with uptime.
What is happening at GH?
Rate of change trying to keep up with new challengers? Over-reliance on AI? Engineers trying to debug slop?
What is happening at GH?
Rate of change trying to keep up with new challengers? Over-reliance on AI? Engineers trying to debug slop?
They're at 93.91% uptime over the past 90 days, according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ , and that doesn't even include today's outage yet.
A glorious one nine of reliability.
I don’t love GitHub, but that number is a little misleading… That’s the intersection uptime of all GitHub services, most of which I (and most users) do not care about; code spaces, copilot, packages etc…
When you take out those uptimes, it becomes a lot higher. I’ll admit there seems to be a lot more incidents than usual though…
In large part, the move from AWS to Azure. Azure's just bad.
Azure remains too bad to move Github to, but the relevant executives have pretty clearly decided that that's no longer a good reason to delay the move.
It can be both things. I've worked professionally with AWS, Azure, and GCP, and Azure is just really flaky and unreliable. It's easily the worst of the three.