How Azure scaled to 2,000 employees on GitHub

Re:How Azure scaled to 2,000 employees on GitHub by ossreality on Monday November 23, 2015 @01:24PM (#10616193)

The tool is really well done and impressive. Yes, it exists to work around gaps in GitHub's functionality, but it's not like we're going to self host git repos and use gitolite...

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Re:How Azure scaled to 2,000 employees on GitHub by jeffwilcox on Monday November 23, 2015 @01:50PM (#10616392)

My hope is that I can delete this in the future.

It's a scary place to be in when we're 1) dependent on a third party, 2) we have to follow GitHub and the API down the rabbit whole, and 3) we are just trying to enable our team to get going fast and hope in time GitHub can just give us all the right tools that check at least some boxes we need, i.e. very granular management to delegate decision making even more.

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Re:How Azure scaled to 2,000 employees on GitHub by EvanPlaice on Monday November 23, 2015 @10:18PM (#10618955)

What's so scary about it?

Any data that is stored on GitHub (ex issues, PRs) can be pulled down via the REST API. So, it should be relatively easy to build a migration tool or alternate UI if necessary.

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Re:How Azure scaled to 2,000 employees on GitHub by cat-dev-null on Monday November 23, 2015 @06:08PM (#10618011)

Oh man... reminds me of svn2git migration I did, an integration of gitolite, deploying on-prem AD, jenkins, JIRA, Confluence and all working together a couple years back. Getting the LDAP query just right is 90% of it.

These days:

- JIRA - for internal, complex project management because the plugins are really good

- Confluence - wiki w/ plugins

- Asana

- Slack/FlowDock - waay better than digging through HipChat/Campfire, IRC

- Hubot - integrations/CLI for everything

- jenkins - for private CI

- Github enterprise - or maybe Gitlab if one can get away with it

- Google Apps for Work / Zoho - because of AD integrations

PS: When deploying a portal page whether internally or for a client, a bespoke 404 page with either a game or random funny images is the way to go. Maybe a humans.txt too.

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Re:How Azure scaled to 2,000 employees on GitHub by monksy on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:27PM (#10618578)

What about Bitbucket?

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Re:How Azure scaled to 2,000 employees on GitHub by baudehlo on Monday November 23, 2015 @09:42PM (#10618845)

Bit bucket is great if you are ok with pushes taking 1 minute and webhooks taking 20 minutes.

Sadly, wish I was joking. But it happens all too often.

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