[HN Gopher] Github.com Down Again?
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Github.com Down Again?
Author : leesalminen
Score : 61 points
Date : 2022-09-06 21:58 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| taf2 wrote:
| Based on the comments maybe they were just A/B testing the new
| 500 error page?
| jmartens wrote:
| The errors seems to be rather intermittent. Metrist saw a
| grouping of them at about 4am pacific today, and then again 3pm.
| That said, in the last hour, less than 1% of Metrist functional
| tests failed.
| [deleted]
| frozencell wrote:
| Could an on-chain Github.com fork prevents those down times?
| itsdrewmiller wrote:
| Yep, crashed within the last 5 minutes.
| [deleted]
| layer8 wrote:
| Luckily, Git is decentralized, so that shouldn't be an issue.
| tenken wrote:
| I guess you don't use GitHub Actions or a CI build workflow ...
| layer8 wrote:
| Exactly my point.
| actually_a_dog wrote:
| Tell that to people who deploy from Github.
| leesalminen wrote:
| Looking at downdetector.com right now and YouTubeTV, HostGator,
| DirecTV, YouTube, Paramount+, crunchyroll, slink, Philo and Roku
| all have big spikes in the past few minutes. Wonder how/why
| Github is related to all these streaming services.
| jmartens wrote:
| My guess is that there is zero correlation between all those
| products you mention, and Github. DownDetector is interesting,
| but I find it to have more noise than signal.
| fotta wrote:
| I wonder if the current US West Coast heatwave is causing some
| shared cloud infrastructure to go down.
| pcmonk wrote:
| Was down for a couple minutes, is back for me
| zxcvbn4038 wrote:
| I've seen more unicorns today...
| hamburglar wrote:
| I've seen two different error pages intermittently. One is a 500
| page with a cartoon character holding a sign that says "500" and
| the other is a page titled "Unicorn!" with the message "We had
| issues producing the response to your request" and a link to a
| status page that says everything is fine.
| taf2 wrote:
| those sound pretty exciting my error page just says:
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| "No server is currently available to service your request"
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| and the images are all broken.
| jwilk wrote:
| I've never seen the non-unicorn one before:
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| https://i.imgur.com/rjw9ekL.png
| alexjplant wrote:
| I've been getting the unicorn for the past few minutes... reminds
| me of the Steve Miller Band logo. Nothing on their status
| channels as of yet.
| djbusby wrote:
| Mine is working , web interface and CLI
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| Edit: northeast USA
| ternaryoperator wrote:
| Crashed but seems to be up again
| seanieb wrote:
| its back.
| kc10 wrote:
| Yes. Statuspage is not yet updated but down at least for the last
| 5+ mins
| gsanderson wrote:
| Seems to be back up again now, was down for me too
| oneplane wrote:
| Yes, intermittent but even partial loads stall out. Was about to
| submit for the same reason.
| chrisseaton wrote:
| No you're all mistaken - there hasn't been any down-time at all
| throughout all of September https://www.githubstatus.com/history.
|
| Edit: GitHub making me look a fool by just updating it now (they
| didn't for the earlier outage...)
| HL33tibCe7 wrote:
| It was a bright cold day in April, and github.com was up...
| djhaskin987 wrote:
| It happened to me and I was also confused. I saw it wasn't on
| the status page, and I thought, GitHub must be like Amazon,
| unwilling to admit fault on the status page.
| fotta wrote:
| there is no outage in Github Sing Se
| [deleted]
| presidentender wrote:
| Partial outages of cloud services feel more and more common
| lately. AWS had degraded service a few weeks (months?) ago. Am I
| mis-remembering how robust everything except Reddit and Twitter
| used to be? It feels as if the internet caught a nasty cold at
| some point and just can't kick it.
| withinboredom wrote:
| Also, it seems way more common to find devs you work with to be
| over-idealized (focusing on "code beautification" or some other
| vanity metric vs. accomplishing a task). There's nothing wrong
| with beautiful code, but I've seen the complexity it can add to
| an otherwise simple project.
| sjrd wrote:
| To me, if the code is not "as simple as possible, but not
| simpler", it is not beautiful.
| withinboredom wrote:
| And there's nothing wrong with that, but, I've seen some
| devs these days spend waaay too much time on "making it
| simpler" or whatever their ideal is, at the cost of error
| handling or you know, solving an actual problem.
| Personally, I don't care what the code looks like as long
| as it's resilient in the face of unexpected errors (ex: a
| user input of 0 to a division function is not
| "exceptional," you should have anticipated that, while a
| service input of the same may be a breach of contract
| between the services and IS exceptional) and actually
| solves a problem.
| Lukabuz wrote:
| I've been noticing the same thing too. I wonder if the state of
| the job market over the past couple of years has anything to do
| with it. More people leaving and taking their knowledge with
| them, meaning issues are identified/fixed at a slower pace. I
| know I've seen it happen at the company I work at, but I wonder
| if big tech similar issues.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| A colleague got an AWS error saying there weren't enough
| resources available to provision an EC2 instance and to try a
| different region or AZ. Not sure how common that is.
| foverzar wrote:
| Well, there IS a cyberwar happening right now.
| swatcoder wrote:
| The trend towards cloud architecture has meant consolidating a
| lot of products onto just a handful of cloud solutions.
|
| You trade a very bubbly flux of outages across countless
| bespoke deployments, hosts, and topologies for something with
| failures that are more rare but also more widespread when they
| occur.
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| Personally, I think what you're noticing is that outages and
| failures are much more _high profile_ than they used to be
| because it's bigger news when these big bubbles burst than it
| was in that noisier flux where small outages were occurring all
| the time.
| alx__ wrote:
| West coast servers having trouble with the heat wave?
| PCloud wrote:
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