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GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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alamsterdam · 1786040754 · focus · HN ↗
It's been hours :(
I have sympathy for the on-call team trying to resolve it, most of us have been there done that.
But seems something is systematically going wrong at GH
1. yashap · 1786041018 · focus · HN ↗
  It's honestly insane how terrible their reliability is. Over the past 4 weeks, 8 days with GitHub Actions outages, many of them multi-hour outages: >3 hours on each of July 9th, July 20th and today, and 1.5 hrs on July 23rd.
  Outages happen, but this many outages so close together, and so many of them so major/long lasting, something is systematically wrong for sure. It's been seriously hamstringing our ability to ship code at my company.
  1. alamsterdam · 1786041264 · focus · HN ↗
    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?
    yashap · 1786041466 · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah who knows, would be interesting to hear an inside take if any readers here are also GH devs!
    They're at 93.91% uptime over the past 90 days, according to <a href="https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/" rel="nofollow">https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ , and that doesn't even include today's outage yet.
    A glorious one nine of reliability.
    marcprux · 1786043772 · focus · HN ↗
    [delayed]
    warmwaffles · 1786043800 · focus · HN ↗
    Don't throw shade, there are two nines in that percentage for now. Miles a part though.
    alamsterdam · 1786045087 · focus · HN ↗
    911 has one! :)
    simoncion · 1786044066 · focus · HN ↗
    > What is happening at GH?
    In large part, the move from AWS to Azure. Azure's just bad.
    alamsterdam · 1786045248 · focus · HN ↗
    wasn't that years ago? or was that Skype? hahaha
    PsylentKnight · 1786046363 · focus · HN ↗
    Based on previous posts I've seen about this, IIRC the timing seems to imply that it has more to do with them being hammered with AI slop than it does with the Azure transition. Who really knows though
2. delduca · 1786042850 · focus · HN ↗
  > But seems something is systematically going wrong at GH
  Yes, we call it: Microslop.
3. tempaccount420 · 1786045018 · focus · HN ↗
  They're one rewrite in Rust away from fixing everything. (jk)
4. hinkley · 1786046855 · focus · HN ↗
  [delayed]

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