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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by pmontra on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:30AM (#25645262)
A customer of mine use GitHub, Travis and Slack.

If GitHub is offline we can still setup a git server somewhere. I could offer my own for a quick startup. Mailing patches to each other, Linux kernel style, is not a viable backup plan. The cultural gap is too wide.

If Travis is down we can run tests locally.

We build the deployment artifact on one of our servers. If that one is down probably our production server is down too.

If Slack is down, ah, I was on vacation yesterday. I guess the fastest backup for us would be WhatsApp Web.

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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by u801e on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @10:40AM (#25646620)
When we ran services like this in-house, I don't really recall a time where any of them failed. Now that we have a 3rd party run those services, it's easy to recall multiple instances where one or more of them were down for some reason.
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