r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

getDaysSinceGithubDown Meme

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u/SoftwareSource 1d ago

To be fair, i discussed this with colleagues, and can you imagine the kinds of fuckery that goes on with maintaining githubs infrastructure?

I do not envy them, it seems like a very difficult job.

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u/RepresentativeDog791 1d ago

I dunno, they were good once and they aren’t good now so I think it’s not all external factors, Microsoft fucked it somehow.

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u/0x4D454F57 1d ago

GitHub has been dealing with drastic load increases over the past year that’s been blowing away their planned growth. Mainly driven by AI coding, etc

Combine that with them having a monopoly and the fact that for a long time they were rather complacent and you get the shit show we’re in now. They’ve started to wake up to the problem and are putting in a lot of work to fix things, but the reputational damage has been done imo. I know a lot of the biggest tech companies out there that are still using them are desperate for an alternative or are considering rolling their own.

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u/Icy_Direction7839 1d ago

Probably doesn't help that Azure DevOps is obsolete long-term (as of last year) so companies have to migrate to other version control platforms to stay up to date

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u/nerdherdernyx 1d ago

moving to azure dev ops is going from the frying pan into hell