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> Google homepage is basically never down.

The complexity difference between the Google search "app" (not counting the vast indexing infrastructure) and GitHub is also vastly different.

> AWS is basically never down.

Lol what? Have you used AWS?

> WhatsApp is basically never down.

Makes sense, Whatsapp always had a huge focus on reliable infrastructure, since day 0. Pays off I guess :)

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I think you are nitpicking. My point is that companies (including Microsoft!) are capable of running large scale infra with much higher uptimes than GitHub. They want to put themselves at the center of our workflows (e.g. GitHub Actions) yet they are not delivering uptimes that are commensurate with that. What is their excuse?

Yeah, I agree with you, bit nitpicky. I also agree that they shouldn't have an excuse, besides confessing their engineering standards are not up to the level of their ambition, which is why I never make anything in my infrastructure depend on anything GitHub, everything that I use GitHub for, I have alternatives setup for the inevitable ill-timed downtime I know will happen.

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