> GitHub Actions: 12 hours affected in the last 30 days (98.31% uptime).
This is trying to shine the most favorable possible light onto a deteriorating situation. It doesn't take away from the fact that most businesses have measurable missed revenue in downtime. Customers that shop somewhere else, ads that were never severed, leads that grew a little colder. 12 hours of downed GitHub results in millions of dollars of lost developer productivity that was externalized by Microsoft to other companies.
We shouldn't be trying to spin downtime as "just a few hours a month." Those hours cost real dollars.
One thing I would like to see is how many of those hours are during normal business hours in my country.
Not all hours are created equal when it comes to downtime and my intuition is that most of these 12 landed within my working hours.
In terms of impact that then might mean they were down for 7.5% of the time I needed them, or had business hours uptime of 92.5% which is… both not very good and very disruptive.
On the other hand, downtime at 4AM would be much less impactful even if it happened every day and added up to more overall downtime.
hx8 · · focus · HN ↗
> GitHub Actions: 12 hours affected in the last 30 days (98.31% uptime).
This is trying to shine the most favorable possible light onto a deteriorating situation. It doesn't take away from the fact that most businesses have measurable missed revenue in downtime. Customers that shop somewhere else, ads that were never severed, leads that grew a little colder. 12 hours of downed GitHub results in millions of dollars of lost developer productivity that was externalized by Microsoft to other companies.
We shouldn't be trying to spin downtime as "just a few hours a month." Those hours cost real dollars.
Angostura · · focus · HN ↗
Is trying to spin anything. It’s making easier to see the impact over the last 30 days. I agree with the article
bartread · · focus · HN ↗
Not all hours are created equal when it comes to downtime and my intuition is that most of these 12 landed within my working hours.
In terms of impact that then might mean they were down for 7.5% of the time I needed them, or had business hours uptime of 92.5% which is… both not very good and very disruptive.
On the other hand, downtime at 4AM would be much less impactful even if it happened every day and added up to more overall downtime.
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