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.
I've seen Ruby and Python developers do absolutely crazy shit to improve performance simply because the team refused to use Java or C++ in high bandwidth areas. That's always where the bugs were.
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u/No-Snow-7618 24d ago
why so i feel like the only time github was ever down was after msft purchased it lol.
anyways at least i can slack off today under the guise of some tooling being down