alt Hacker NewsPeople overestimate how much they care about stuff. Moving off GitHub would be more costly for us than having 5% downtime. Obviously there’s a tipping point, but it shows people are tolerant given the price tags.
People overestimate how much they care about stuff. Moving off GitHub would be more costly for us than having 5% downtime. Obviously there’s a tipping point, but it shows people are tolerant given the price tags.
For a reasonably common class of deployment and organization (E.g. an online service where the cost of a short outage is significant) it becomes a pain point. For instance if there's a sudden security flap and you need to re-spin your system and redeploy, but that process is gated on GitHub working, now you're screwed if that security flap happens when GitHub is in its 5% down time. Basically you've coupled your uptime to GitHub's uptime in some measure.