mellowfish

RE: https://techhub.social/@ironicbadger/116326155409620757

If they are going for 100% uptime, they are doing not well. But I would guess that at Microsoft’s scale, they could do that. So clearly, that’s not the aim (even if some wish it was). It’s always annoying with github goes down, but generally brief and has never actually blocked me from doing anything. And they have built some great stuff in this time.

Apr 1 at 2:32amWeb
Show threadmellowfish4d ago
@ironicbadger also always critical to look at axis on graphs. Worst case here is above 99.5% uptime, or 7 minutes of downtime per day. The average across Microsoft’s tenure appears to be closer to 7 seconds of downtime per day. Now “5 9s” (99.999%) is more like 5 minutes of downtime per year, and yeah that’s clearly better. But still, it’s not like the bottom is 0 or 90% or anything.
Show threadBradley Schaefer4d ago

@mellowfish anecdotally this has impacted my org’s work. Things like PR reviews being unusable (and required for merging) for stretches long enough for many internal complaints.

It’s not absolute doom, but it has been noticeably worse, and apparently objectively worse as well by github’s self-reported (probably under-reported) data.

Yes, they have also built some stuff in that time