They are just honest about reporting these events. Others don't, so they look better. It's easy to lie without getting caught, because most people don't experience most outages personally.
If this was Twitter / X having these outages every single week, the entirety of HN would come out and scream 'Twitter / X falling apart!', 'It is crumbling', 'Its grinding to a halt again!'
In comparison to GitHub which for a service to have tons of outages a week is quite atrocious for reliability.
But somehow it is acceptable to tolerate GitHub's ridiculous uptime record, but of course, on HN and in wider tech circles, a different standard of uptime is applied here to GitHub despite it being known that it has fallen over much more times than Twitter / X has done for years, week after week.
Until the next time GitHub goes down again. Probably won't be long anyway.
> If this was Twitter / X having these outages every single week, the entirety of HN would come out and scream 'Twitter / X falling apart!', 'It is crumbling', 'Its grinding to a halt again!'
Fail Whale is a thing tho, remarkable for frequent sightings in the seas of Twitter.
If Twitter / X went down every week like GitHub is currently doing for years, they would be called out for that, immediately. But here we have GitHub; a centralized service having over 100M+ active users and their record of uptime is far worse than Twitter / X's and it is given a pass each time it falls over every week.
By that standard, we should not be accepting GitHub's ridiculous uptime history and it has been found that GitHub is far more unreliable than most services including Twitter / X but somehow right here, GitHub is not falling apart or seen as unreliable, especially with having more than 5 incidents in one month for years?
Eh, that's giving MS too much credit. They're as honest as most corporations are with status pages. I've experienced outages and error pages many times while the status page showed green across the board.
There's definitely been a noticeable decrease in reliability since MS took over. They've introduced many features, which is appreciated, but products like Actions are notoriously unreliable and flaky.
Lots of attrition of good engineers. Management is not held accountable for failures, only engineers are scapegoated. As a result, remaining engineers are disgruntled and don't care.
> Blind is an echo chamber, and attracts a certain type of person, for sure.
It certainly is a misery-loves-company community. But I have found them to be the most honest representation of a company and its tech and management practices. It is also a reliable source of compensation data.
For example, I look at Meta's reviews there and that matches my experience. Nobody cares about their apps. All people care about is performance reviews with fake impact. That was exactly my experience in the company.
I've found its accurate for Meta / Microsoft / Google / Apple / Netflix / Amazon. Having worked at Apple for half a decade, it seemed (mostly) accurate.
I have found it less accurate for other companies that are big and desirable but not nearly as sought after to work for in the last decade. For startups or smaller companies, its not the best data point
Don't know where I'd put GitHub, maybe the signal to noise ratio is closer to one of the big companies than not, however my current employer has a Blind channel and its not very accurate to my experience
Lol! If you're an engineer and you don't spend even a little time on Blind, you're signing up to get hustled. Learned so many interesting tidbits from Blind that I was able to use to get ahead in my career. Is it negative, yes; can you still benefit from it, yes.
Businesses that can turn profit from monkeys as employees are best businesses. Running such businesses on tightly standardized PhDs is best for its own survival. So that's what everyone does to various degrees, and it's also such a horrible thinking.
Only partially I believe, there quite famous for running their own hardware (metal cloud). I think some new features like Actions, Codespaces and of course Copilot run on Azure.
This is what is known as "anarchy of production" which is a key feature of capitalism. A global crisis like this is not compatible with our existing economic systems.
Based on my experiences buying other things on Amazon, there will be a "masks" factory. People will be churning out tons and tons of counterfeit N95 masks. They will invest in printing believable CE marks and putting all the touches that would be present on a medical-grade mask. And people will buy them believing that the masks are high-quality and that they are safe wearing them.
This thread is literally about how the housing market isn't a true market...it's a government run welfare program backed by the Fed. You're proving my point.
At least the prisons aren't re-education camps to worship USA culture and the Federal Government. At least I can publicly talk about evil government abuse of its citizens, unlike Chinese people living under the CCP's shadow.
August had 11 incidents it seems. September already has 3.
https://www.githubstatus.com/history