alt Hacker NewsFrom GitHub CTO in 2025 when they announced they're moving everything to Azure instead of letting GitHub's infrastructure remain independent:
> For us, availability is job #1, and this migration ensures GitHub remains the fast, reliable platform developers depend on
That went about as well as everyone thought back then.
Does anyone else remember back in ~2014-2015 sometime, when half the community was screaming at GitHub to "please be faster at adding more features"? I wish we could get back to platforms (or OSes for that matter) focusing in reliability and stability. Seems those days are long gone.
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> I wish we could get back to platforms (or OSes for that matter) focusing in reliability and stability
That's only a valid sentiment if you only use the big players. Both of those have medium/smaller competitors that have shown (for decades) that they are extremely boring, therefore stable.
I think stability and reliability have vastly improved over the last years in general (not necessarily talking about gh specifically)
It's just that everybody is using 100 tools and dependencies which themselves depend on 50 others to be working.
Perhaps when they switch over fully to Azure they'll forget to disable IPv6 access. One can dream
GitHub have not really got much better at adding new features either though :(