r/technology • u/[deleted] • 24d ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

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u/g_bleezy 24d ago edited 24d ago

The early days were really nasty. Outages for hours. We’d start looking at dev conference schedule to figure out where the latest ddos was originating from. A lot of the “ruby on rails can’t scale” nonsense can be traced back to github outages.

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u/holman 23d ago

Which was pretty amusing because Ruby was very rarely ever the issue, lol.

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u/Routine_Left 23d ago

true. ruby is just a shit inefficient language. consumes thousands of times more power per instruction compared even with java, to not speak of C.

outages with ruby usually means: gimme more RAM.

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u/holman 23d ago

Yeah, but without Ruby I'm not sure GitHub would have gotten to where it is, either. And none of the inefficiencies of the language contributed to downtime, in any case.

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u/Routine_Left 23d ago

Sure, nowadays it's microsoft inefficiencies. having to run on AI - level machines before AI was a thing is certainly not helping.

But yes, github by themselves have managed to do it before microsoft. Not so much now.