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Re:GitHub is down by zuck_vs_musk on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:48AM (#39940122)
This happens fairly regularly. Do HNers think that Microsoft azure and/or Ruby has a role in it?
Re:GitHub is down by miningape on Friday April 05, 2024 @05:14AM (#39940340)
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 (#39940147)
Why would Ruby play a role in it? Azure definitely does though. (ex azure employee here )
Re:GitHub is down by usrme on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:59AM (#39940216)
GitHub itself is written in Ruby.
Re:GitHub is down by enescakir on Friday April 05, 2024 @05:10AM (#39940307)
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 (#39940374)
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 (#39940276)
[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 (#39946807)
> 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.