alt Hacker NewsTheir infra is under constant DDoS + they provide a lot of free stuff for open source projects. There's also a constant churn of dependencies, patches, abandoned libraries, etc. We should give them some appreciation, dealing with this stuff is hard.
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Even without out the free stuff, no one in this thread seems to have experience managing a self-hosted git environment in even a medium sized company.
It is also constant outages, and then it's your job to diagnose and fix it- and the technical work of that is the easiest part.
It's broken because a team figured out a new way to abuse the company's git infra to get around some process or limitation, and now you have to argue with their manager and then their director about why their team needs to stop using your VCS as a docker registry or whatever.
Agreed. I don't think people realize how much more people are using their free services. It's staggering.
They need to cut back on the free tiers if it’s causing outages for paying customers
I think you are giving them way too much leeway. For the service they provide there’s no technical reason it can’t be infinitely scalable. For example their “pull request” page constantly goes down. Serving that kind of workload at high burst load is a fully solved problem.
If they are genuinely compute constrained on CI they should obviously reduce the free offerings rather than take down all their paying customers constantly.