hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Incident with multple GitHub services
How much of this github downtime is due to git actions?
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Raw Postshn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Incident with Actions – Resolved
I don't know whether Github is in trouble as an organization or whether there is a crowd just waiting for it to go down in flames and I don't care about that.What I can attest to is that Github has been uncharacteristically flaky this past year. At least for large clients in the EU. Its not that there is outright downtime but if you have an Actions or PR invested team you probably have felt the uptick in troubleshooting these two features in the past 12 months.And again, its not that these features go completely down, mostly its just "why is this status not being reported" or, "where is the ru
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
And how many of those actions do uncached downloads instead of building self-contained offline images... Speaking of which, I wonder if GitHub has implemented any HTTP interception for common mirror sites, like used by apt, etc.
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: GitHub is investigating an incident with Pull Requests, Issues and Webhooks
Web hooks are not reliable. When engineering your system, you need to implement a scheduled based watcher to go back and clean up hook issues.