alt Hacker NewsYou don’t know that it was “their mistake.” Unless you’ve personally successfully scaled a suite of nontrivial services equivalent to GitHub’s to accommodate an unexpected 14x increase in traffic, you respectfully have no basis for such an assertion.
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mattmanser • yesterday at 6:36 PM
Yeah, they should be testing for that, right? I think there's a lot of people reading comments like yours and thinking, is this person a paid shill or what?
The earn bucket loads of money, they should be planning for exactly that. And testing for it via load testing every day.
Perhaps you've forgotten the days of GitHub presenting themselves of software engineering thought leaders.
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qotgalaxy • yesterday at 6:33 PM
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I have.
You could argue the scales are different, but computers are also faster now.
So, argument to credentialism out of the way... What should we do as consumers if a provider that is a defacto monopoly due to network effects stops functioning?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947719
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jharasym/