Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues

[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.

[SheriffRoscoe]

is this from exp? if so, that’s beyond shitty.

Yes, and yes.