alt Hacker NewsCould be. But 99% of the repos are static garbage with no PR nor actions.
They mentioned they have some elasticsearch reindexing going to, I would guess they needed to regard or move stuff and something didn't work well. But if I understood it right they mentioned the PRs ES index which they didn't shared proof increased as the number of repos.
It might be anything. It seems they lost huge chunks due to layoffs and structural changes and MS which has the reverse golden Midas touch.
This is just pure speculation but also now there is no reason for MS to keep GH working. They absorbed all code they wanted. Now they can let it burn. Would be even better for them if that happened
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Serious question, have you been part of an org that had to scale orders of magnitude very quickly?
Anyone who has been part of that journey knows how painful it really is. A lot of times the systems to fail at all levels, and you have to redesign it from the first principles.
At that point, make it lazy indexing? Who cares that I can't find a repo that was made 10 seconds ago, or even 15 minutes ago? No seriously, who cares? Search to that level of nuance is not mission critical, I don't care what anyone says, you'll live if you wait another 15 minutes or even an hour. Their search has been terrible since their last major set of search changes where they overhauled it completely either way.
> Could be. But 99% of the repos are static garbage with no PR nor actions.
But the 1% of repos that do have PRs and actions are likely going to be seeing enormous increases in volumes
I have been a part of two very large companies with self hosted gits and I've seen enough to be confident that this is an incredibly hard thing to manage