alt Hacker NewsAt my company, we migrated basically all CI/CD to Github Actions. Also our Gitops processes. I have warned that putting all the eggs in one basket and they key to the fridge in the same basket was a bad idea. People didn't care. So I don't care anymore.
Github seems to have degraded measurably after they got acquired. As is tradition.
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It's Microsoft's touch. Anything they touch gets fucked up. It's because of their shitty infrastructure aka Azure. There was an employee here who actually gave insight into how bad the situation was a while back. Just reading that should make you re-evaluate anything owned by Microsoft.
Edit: here's the link: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...
I feel sorry for the teams at this point. These kind of incidents at this scare and frequency are bound to create an acrimonious environment where everyone would be looking for scapegoats on the pretext of finding root causes.
> People didn't care. So I don't care anymore.
Yeah. Enjoy the rest of your day off. Winter's coming, maybe go hit a park for a few hours or play a new video game or something. Or take some time to learn a new skill or something. Not your fault if the company can't provide the tools to do the job, go find something better to do.
Sounds like you now have your audience for the previously proposed solution.
Curious what even is the alternative. The stickiness is quite high and risk is scary to swap providers.
> Github seems to have degraded measurably after they got acquired. As is tradition.
Their explosive growth caused by LLMs seems like it must be a much better indicator than the acquisition. I bet Microsoft are losing a shit ton of money on GitHub right now and seriously questioning the decision to buy them.
So they're giving you random free coffee breaks of varying length? Quite the perk.
It's correlated and possibly semi-causal, but IIUC the real issue GitHub is suffering from is they don't have a clean mechanism for filtering AI-generated activity, which is growing exponentially and putting significant strain on their backend in new ways that didn't show up before. Many AI solutions use PRs, for example, as a plan-of-record journal, which creates very different access patterns from how humans use GitHub.
They could, hypothetically, filter bot traffic; I believe they are probably avoiding that solution because they don't want to be, as a market position choice, "anti-AI" (and you could blame the acquisition on this; I'm not sure pre-acquire GH wouldn't have responded to the AI craze with "LOL, no" and instituted a "no agent-driven PRs" policy).
They haven't degraded, their service is being hit by an enormous amount of traffic. PRs/commits are what? Doubling every quarter?
>Github seems to have degraded measurably after they got acquired. As is tradition.
This old chestnut.
Same, they seemed to have a moritorium after there last flurry of debacles, but clearly they are letting their engineers deploy slop again.
I will never trust github at any other company ever again.
> Github seems to have degraded measurably after they got acquired. As is tradition.
I'm not disagreeing with you that it has degraded, however it was acquired almost 8 years ago at this point, and the software world has been turned on it's head in the last... 3?
Software generally degrades post-acquisition, I'm not denying that. Github has definitely degraded. I'm not sure I would agree that the core reason in this case is "the acquisition" and not "AI making software and free-CI-load demand 3-5 orders-of-magnitude higher than it was 3 years ago"