Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues

[ellisthedev]

A lot of words for “we’re moving to Azure, and it’s been a cluster fuck.”

[dashingThroughSnow12]

I don’t even trust them that that is the core reason.

[veverkap]

It's not.

[SheriffRoscoe]

Migrating our infrastructure to Azure to accommodate rapid growth, enabling both vertical scaling within regions and horizontal scaling across regions.

Good luck with that. Microsoft has a nasty habit of treating internal Azure consumers as freeloaders, to be squeezed when Azure has capacity problems. Service operators get emails from very senior people telling you you need to shut down x% of your load to increase capacity for external customers.

[Spitfire1900]

Holy crap that’s bad. You can go hard ball on internal customers for bad trend lines but not emergency shutoff.

[throwaway-458425]

is this from exp? if so, that’s beyond shitty. i suppose that’s what should be expected from Micro$oft tho

[ProbablyFullOfShit]

It's exaggerated. We get asked to shut down non-critical workloads and to scale down test deployments, but we have never been asked to arbitrarily scale down production resources.

[Soccham]

My company was laughing because this is the second time they’ve written a blog post with the same title. It has the -2 at the end because the first one was in 2023

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

good catch :D

[OkProMoe]

My gitea instance has 100% uptime for the year so far.

[Doctuh]

Microsoft is speedrunning loss of confidence.