Comment by IshKebab
2 hours ago
I don't think so. GitHub was bought by Microsoft 8 years ago and people have only started complaining about its uptime in the last year or so - exactly correlating with the surge in LLM use.
2 hours ago
I don't think so. GitHub was bought by Microsoft 8 years ago and people have only started complaining about its uptime in the last year or so - exactly correlating with the surge in LLM use.
https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/
Seems pretty conclusive. Very similar story when they bought skype.
God that's sad. I almost feel bad for all the engineers there, though I'm sure they made good money and probably left
Do they still have any engineers? From the downtime it seems like they don't any more. Yep - the competent ones likely all left.
I don't think so. I've seen those complaints for more than a year.
I have an Ops background and I strongly suspect they were given a stupid timeline for the Azure migration.
I've got to believe Microsoft have decent Ops people but the management wanted to move faster than was reasonable and screwed it up. Move one thing at a time and double check it all works and you can do a migration like this.
Isnt it also in the past year when they started to move Github fully to microsoft infra? Off whatever they were doing before
Didn't github also migrate at azure recently? That certainly can't help.
> people have only started complaining about its uptime in the last year or so
I'm sorry but this made me laugh out loud. That isn't true at all, this has been going on for years. This conversation[0] from six years ago has discussion about the outages starting to become much more frequent in December 2019. It has never gotten better in that time, it's just continually degraded.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935941