Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there?

Posted by laxk on Thursday August 06, 2026 @03:47PM
from the self-post dept.

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Re:Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there? by monadicmonad on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:31PM (#49203532)

super duper serious

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Re:Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there? by sharts on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:44PM (#49203660)

Nobody will risk violating NDA and lose their vesting of $$ to answer to the people.

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Re:Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there? by leoh on Thursday August 06, 2026 @07:09PM (#49203872)

What is the question being asked about?

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Re:Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there? by apothegm on Thursday August 06, 2026 @11:07PM (#49205503)

Another (worse than ever) Actions outage today.

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Re:Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there? by znpy on Thursday August 06, 2026 @07:54PM (#49204267)

Afaik github is a ruby shop.

My (wild!) guess is that their choice of ruby came back to bite their ass and now they can't keep up with the load.

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Re:Ask GitHub SRE: How serious is the situation there? by eddyg on Friday August 07, 2026 @07:53AM (#49209032)

For some context, GitHub COO back on April 3, 2026: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

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