A great idea for the entire world to use github for all their code and cloudflare for all their web sites. Some great thinking right there.
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I think about the term “single point of failure” very often these last years.
Cloudflare is just 20% of the websites, like 1/5 of the entire world.
What matters is really how many of the most popular web sites are behind it. The large massive ones with lots of traffic are likely to use it.
Not really, Cloudflare is popular among common people due to their free services. Enterprise is more about AWS and Azure because their servers are already there.
Edit. Btw 20% is Cloudflare's own claim.
Well, i checked. From the top 1000 websites in the world, cloudflare is fronting 55% of them.
Same with top 10000 websites, 55%.
Top 100000 websites, 52%.
All measured websites, 29%.
I think this is telling a different story than small sites using free cloudflare services. The 20% that cloudflare says is most similar to "all measured websites" where tons of small ones are included.
Something like 40% of the top 100k sites use Cloudflare. Builtwith says 44%: https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Cloudflare/High-Traffic-Volume
The pricing on their paid plans is very competitive. For small to medium sites, it's orders of magnitude cheaper than Akamai. The WAF and DDoS protection is pretty good too.
The largest sites like Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc have their own CDNs, including servers they provide to large ISPs for free since it significantly reduces upstream bandwidth usage (Netflix call this Open Connect; Meta's is Facebook/Meta Network Appliance). Outside of the largest sites, you'd be surprised how many companies rely on Cloudflare. It's kinda scary.
I suspect most of the paid Cloudflare customers are also AWS or Azure customers. Cloudflare isn't used to host big websites, but it's certainly used to defend them from DDoS attacks, which is the main feature Cloudflare offers and what is usually in use when you see the Cloudflare error page.
Cloudflare for hosting small static websites is a niche usage of it.
Who do we git blame for this
No one will git commit to it.
We just need to push the right people
Who is even copiloting this?
Microslop is a tiny scrappy start-up company, give them some slack and patience, they can't just throw virtually unlimited money at the problem to solve it...
They don't want slack, they use Microsoft Teams over there
So it was a communication issue then
I wouldn't want to have the job of managing GitHub infrastructure right now. The sheer volume of AI slop being uploaded must be unimaginable
I once got into an argument with someone about how AI PRs are terrible and overwhelm FOSS projects which are already notoriously understaffed and burned out. Eventually I just started having Claude generate the most verbose responses it could, prefaced with "to make my point, from now on to continue this argument you'll need to read a mountain of AI slop I probably didn't read myself, and all I have to do is copy and paste into Claude and hit generate"
Wait... were you arguing for or against AI slop?
Just use AI to filter, ez
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They should migrate their code to use some technology that scales well... Like web servers and git.
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There's an image going around showing a bar chart of GitHub uptimes over the last several years. It was steady as a rock until Microsoft took over, then it started dipping like crazy and never recovered.
Man, remember when three nines was the standard uptime guarantee?
"but what if we keep using the first digit as all of the nines 🤔" Microslop thought as they pushed 10 000 more LoC shat out by AI to production without reading it.
I do. I was there when we hosted everything internally and everyone moved to the cloud for "reliability".
Oh how the turntables....
If anyone is interested in heading back toward hosting your own infra, lmk and I may come back to tech.
I'm confused, github status page does have uptime for last 30d, the text in this link says otherwise?
LOL 93.73% uptime the last 90days, and that is an IMPROVEMENT - low point was in May this year with 84.31% 90d-uptime.
This is embarrassing. Do they just push everying directly to production without any QA?
Do they just push everying directly to production without any QA?
Don't be ridiculous! They're very careful to always write a prompt to QA the code before they write a prompt to push to prod.
Haha, just kidding, they probably just have an agent do the prompting now.
Nein Nines uptime.
They are using Github Copilot to do all their updates/patches
Torvalds was right when he said that coding AI cannot replace competent devs, or you waste more time fixing shit that AI broke than actually doing something productive. The more complex a platform gets, the more relevant is the understanding of the structure to be able to guide the AI.
All this "we replace junior devs with LLMs" it the equivalent to castrating yourself because you can get testosterone injections, with the same result - lack of competent devs in the future.
I'm a game design student. One of my classmates is vibe coding literally everything. Entire monitor dedicated to just asking AI for stuff. Every day it is "I made this thing!" Followed by hours of them blindly fucking with it to try and get the AI to fix it. They're learning almost nothing but occasionally something cool looking pops out and they start bragging about it. They're going to be so fucked the moment anything is bigger than a single system misbehaving in a contained way they won't have even learned the words necessary to start researching the issue
Yeah, like I use AI for debugging but my coworker that left for an AI company was fully doing that and we ended up archiving his MR after he left because it was full of issues down to simple hard coded site values.
Good to see that he is actively removing his virtual genes from the developer gene pool by castrating his growth.
this is legitimately what i think is happening. both with github's constant outages and windows 11 seeming to be getting worse faster than ever before. a fucking gigabyte of ram for a weather app, a beginner programming project, built like an electron app because i guess copilot doesn't know c#.
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They were the ones that invented LLM assisted coding...
microsoft: "93.73 and 90, that's at least two nines right there"
I’m just about to go in on GitHub Enterprise but I may consider Codeberg. For the latter, how well do build agents and workflow files transfer over? Also looking for things like SSO, dedicated IPs for workers and remote on premise workers.
If you're considering hosting Github Enterprise on-prem then it might be worth considering Forgejo too. It's the system that powers Codeberg.
Codeberg doesn't allow proprietary code, only open-source. You'd have to self-host Forgejo if you want to use it for private projects.
If it helps, ghe is hosted on completely different servers than gh public servers. They were also unaffected by this as i could keep working.
I havent heard much good stuff of codeberg tbh
That said, this is a reminder i need to test a local hosted gitea
This was a horrible day. I couldn’t even open the source code to make fun of a friend’s choice of language.
Well at least they’re showing me a picture of an angry unicorn, as if that’s going to lighten my mood
The message says "This page is taking too long to load".
I like how it is so vague an average person could easily assume it wasn't an outage.
They're avoiding accountability even at the system error level.
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