> I've felt like its a little unfair to judge the uptime of company platforms like this; by saying "if any feature at all is down, its all down" and then translating that into 9s for the platform.

This is definitely true.

At the same time, none of the individual services has hit 3x9 uptime in the last 90 days [0], which is their Enterprise SLA [1] ...

> "Uptime" is the percentage of total possible minutes the applicable GitHub service was available in a given calendar quarter. GitHub commits to maintain at least 99.9% Uptime for the applicable GitHub service.

[0]: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

[1]: https://github.com/customer-terms/github-online-services-sla

(may have edited to add links and stuff, can't remember, one of those days)

you are what you do

> I am a CTO

> "but I don't really do CTO things"

so you’re not a CTO according to your own definition of what a CTO does then.

my previous employment i was “lead engineer”. i got to pick that title. had a 1 day per week part timer reporting to me. similar company description. making technical decisions. strategy meetings with CEO and founder etc.

i was not a lead engineer and ive since changed my linkedin page/cv to just say “engineer”. who or what was i leading? a contractor in ukraine who did work for us one day a week? nah, need a team (ie more than 1) to be able to lead.

do the brave thing and call bullshit on yourself. this is something good leaders do.