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uplebianon Incident with GitHub Actions, API requests, Codespaces, Git operations, Issues

> Then I should see no-one being surprised or complaining

Oh agree 100%, this is the equivalent of the "reply-all email threads" and people responding to be remove or stop. I find it entertaining overall.

> Until the next time GitHub goes down again

Cheers

uplebianon Incident with GitHub Actions, API requests, Codespaces, Git operations, Issues

> It is GitHub that is defeating the whole point of it all, once their hosted central server goes down.

server != service

assuming its a distributed service vs one server for a multi-billion$ company also group of humans built this service, so its not gonna be perfect :shrug:

companies that use such tools and in trust all the business process to a provided service and do consider an event like this is a blocker should build in contingency plans or accept that there is no real 5-nines of availability more like 90-98%