Re:GitHub is down
by zuck_vs_musk on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:48AM
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This happens fairly regularly. Do HNers think that Microsoft azure and/or Ruby has a role in it?
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Azure is such dogwater - Even a narcoleptic intern could run a more effective cloud service using raspberry pis and a tin can.
A better question would be "is there anyone who doesn't think Azure played a role here?"
Re:GitHub is down
by furkansahin on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:51AM
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Why would Ruby play a role in it?
Azure definitely does though. (ex azure employee here )
GitHub itself is written in Ruby.
Don't underestimate Ruby's performance
https://x.com/tobi/status/1728524453854756883?s=20
Re:GitHub is down
by furkansahin on Friday April 05, 2024 @05:18AM
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Well, when we say GitHub, we are talking about thousands of services. I don’t think we can pinpoint the overall operational failures to programming language choice. In my experience, these kind of issues are mostly caused by poor organizational architecture + poor project management. In GitHub’s case, I’m also confident to say the choice of infrastructure plays a much bigger role than Ruby.
Re:GitHub is down
by chupasaurus on Friday April 05, 2024 @05:06AM
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[0] is a my favorite demonstration of it.
[0]: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1...
Re:GitHub is down
by zuck_vs_musk on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:27PM
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> Why would Ruby play a role in it? Azure definitely does though. (ex azure employee here )
Oh yeah. If someone says C++ has poor memory safety than Rust then no one is triggered. But say something about Ruby (the language on a secular decline - https://www.dice.com/binaries/content/gallery/dice/insights/...) and the pitchforks are out.