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by khaledh6 hours ago |
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upvoteby jsheard6 hours ago|
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Top-down mandates to use AI as much as possible, and to rip up their infrastructure and move everything to Azure.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/using-ai-is-no-long...

https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

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upvoteby politelemon6 hours ago|
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This is very worrying if their mandate doesn't include quality control.
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upvoteby xeonmc5 hours ago|
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Maybe they mandated to use AI for quality control?
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upvoteby esseph4 hours ago|
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Wasn't QC fired a decade ago in most companies?
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upvoteby khaledh6 hours ago|
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I figured that it would be something like that. But it's been so frequent that I expect the leadership to act decisively towards a long-term reliability plan. Unfortunately they have near monopoly in this space, so I guess there's not enough incentive to fix the situation.
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upvoteby gobalini5 hours ago|
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How frequent? I think the obsession with uptime is annoying. If GitHub is down, if there’s something so critical, then you need some more control of the system. Otherwise take a couple hours and get a coffee or an early lunch.
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upvoteby khaledh5 hours ago|
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Frequent enough to interrupt the flow of an entire organization, wasting thousands of hours. Take a look:

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses

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upvoteby gobalini1 hours ago|
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Yeah that is pretty bad I guess. For decades 99% has been achievable for many orgs. 92% phew.

But “waste” is arguable. If folks have literally nothing to do when GitHub is down, I question that a bit. For example, design, administrative work (everyone has that), lunch. You know?

Critical CI/CD can use Jenkins, but in that case folks might end up with 89% uptime!

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upvoteby khaledh1 hours ago|
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> If folks have literally nothing to do when GitHub is down, I question that a bit.

It's not about a single person. I work at a company with over 10k employees, most of them rely on GitHub one way or another. It's not just about PRs and issues; there's a huge amount of automation, workflows, and integrations that depend on GitHub, round the clock. With this kind of uptime it has material impact on productivity of the company as a whole.

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upvoteby drcongo6 hours ago|
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Does anything running on Azure have an acceptable uptime?
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