It's honestly insane how terrible their reliability is. Over the past 4 weeks, 8 days with GitHub Actions outages, many of them multi-hour outages: >3 hours on each of July 9th, July 20th and today, and 1.5 hrs on July 23rd.
Outages happen, but this many outages so close together, and so many of them so major/long lasting, something is systematically wrong for sure. It's been seriously hamstringing our ability to ship code at my company.
I don’t love GitHub, but that number is a little misleading… That’s the intersection uptime of all GitHub services, most of which I (and most users) do not care about; code spaces, copilot, packages etc…
When you take out those uptimes, it becomes a lot higher. I’ll admit there seems to be a lot more incidents than usual though…
Yea just try requesting an SLA credit from them. According to THEIR numbers it’s 99.995%. It’s intolerable and I am going to put my full weight behind stripping as much work as we can from GHA as possible, even if leaving GitHub itself is effectively logistically and contractually impossible.
Based on previous posts I've seen about this, IIRC the timing seems to imply that it has more to do with them being hammered with AI slop than it does with the Azure transition. Who really knows though
> ...IRC the timing seems to imply that it has more to do with them being hammered with AI slop...
It can be both things. I've worked professionally with AWS, Azure, and GCP, and Azure is just really flaky and unreliable. It's easily the worst of the three.
AFAIK, the move to Azure is still ongoing. Rumor has it that it was delayed for a very long time after the Github acquisition because Azure was too bad to move Github to.
Azure remains too bad to move Github to, but the relevant executives have pretty clearly decided that that's no longer a good reason to delay the move.
Outages happen, but this many outages so close together, and so many of them so major/long lasting, something is systematically wrong for sure. It's been seriously hamstringing our ability to ship code at my company.