On: GitHub was down

[goranmoomin]

HN already has a 'Github downtime' post as soon as I find Github weird and check HN if it's only me. How is everybody so fast? :-)

[chimprich → goranmoomin]

If Github is down, thousands of programmers suddenly have nothing better to do.

[tasogare → chimprich]

Conversely, if Hacker News was down GitHub would suddenly see a spike in traffic :)

[ithkuil → chimprich]

I rolled my eyes twice, then merged a few PRs manually and moved on with my day. (i.e. the git server itself and all the API required to interact with the CI automation _appears_ to work just fine)

[umanwizard → ithkuil]

The actual server was broken for me:

  $ git push
  Enumerating objects: 26, done.
  Counting objects: 100% (26/26), done.
  Delta compression using up to 8 threads
  Compressing objects: 100% (15/15), done.
  Writing objects: 100% (15/15), 1.49 KiB | 1.49 MiB/s, done.
  Total 15 (delta 12), reused 0 (delta 0)
  remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (12/12), completed with 10     local objects.
  remote: Internal Server Error
  To git+ssh://github.com/<redacted>/<redacted>
   ! [remote failure]    wip -> wip (remote failed to report status)
  error: failed to push some refs to 'git+ssh://git@github.com/<redacted>/<redacted>'

[davidajackson → chimprich]

Fortunately the first I saw of the one a few days ago started right around lunchtime.

[djsumdog → chimprich]

The tragedy of the cloud.

[jbverschoor → djsumdog]

git is distributed...

[0xffff2 → jbverschoor]

git is distributed. The GitHub issue and PR tracker isn't.

[kempbellt → jbverschoor]

Yeah, but people are lazy and GitHub has a user-friendly UI with big green "Merge" buttons.

[mirekrusin → kempbellt]

And ci integration; which runs automated tests; which must pass to release package/docker image/whatever; which is required for deploying new version for your system etc. The whole thing is as distributed as business of a guy selling hot dogs on the street.

[arparthasarathi → goranmoomin]

HN is the next place after Github that a programmer frequently visits ;)

[jansan → goranmoomin]

If Github is down, the software developing world comes to a standstill. So people either get a coffee, take a shit or go to YCNews.

[human → jansan]

Or a combination of all three!

[zaphar → jansan]

Almost nothing I work on has a dependency on GitHub. Whether work or personal. We have all dependencies vendored at work and my personal stuff is the same.

There really is no good reason bee so dependent on GitHub.