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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by roughly on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:31PM (#49350331)
Infra is a cost center right up until its absence begins to undercut your value proposition to customers, and then it becomes an investment. GitHub seems well on the wrong side of that equation right now.
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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by geodel on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @03:29PM (#49351316)
In general true. But most of paying customers, including enterprise have made a bet that they cut down expense and resources on operational experience, system management knowledge to minimum because cloud .

So even if these cloud/SAAS solutions perform poorly it is not like customers have wherewithal to create alternate solutions.

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by conartist6 on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:54PM (#49352556)
> it is not like customers have wherewithal to create alternate solutions.

it's not impossible. they don't, right up until they do

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