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Re:Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue by greglindahl on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @01:35AM (#17915263)
In my experience, most companies that use "github" (and not "git") cannot get much done if github is down.
Re:Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue by setquk on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:05AM (#17915391)
So much this. All the pipeline and delivery stuff is glued into github’s API. Most companies aren’t using git any more but github and git is just a dependency. I’ve even seen developers who are unaware that git can exist without github.

I incidentally think this is a completely terrible outcome.

Re:Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue by daveFNbuck on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:06AM (#17915393)
It doesn't really mater what service provider you use. You can't do anything that requires a sync if the server is down. You can do a bit of local development, but things like automated tests and deployment to staging servers will tend to break if they can't access the source.
Re:Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue by TeMPOraL on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:05AM (#17915392)
Or badly configured CI, that redownloads dependencies all the time instead of caching them locally.