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I understand it's a joke, but really isnt the entire point of git is to be able to work locally as much as you want without affecting the remote repo and vice versa
Git allows me to write code as much as I want. But GitHub does more than just Git. If you don’t remember the details of the next task you need to work on and GitHub is down, that’s a problem. As a senior I spend a lot of time reviewing PRs. That’s considerably harder when GitHub is down.
I mean there are tons of options in that space so if it's an issue that is sorta on your business to have evaluated their dependency.
We work on an internal gitlab instance that has had 100 percent up time for like 2 years. It doesn't even have to be gitlab, there's gitea and like 10 other options.
I personally think that the industry has moved so far in the direction of cloud and saas that it's lost a lot of valuable skills and made them dependent on too much externally.
It's like "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Nobody ever got fired for pitching a migration to GitHub. It doesn't have to be good. Then one day it's crumbling down and people will have to learn to face consequences.
I'm the only person at my (small startup) company who has the skills to maintain a GitLab instance. Been there, done that, never fucking again. I HATE maintenance. We're probably going to migrate to some other platform since GitHub is intent on turning to shit.
In 2014 I set up GitLab for my then employer. It had to be something self hosted because of client requirements. I was apparently the only one in a company of about 200 that knew anything about Linux.
Wasn't too bad, just keeping it up to date etc. When I left in 2016 I'd just upgraded the server to ubuntu 16.04. It's probably still running that now. I know someone who is still there and they've said GitLab itself hasn't been updated since I left.
I set up and maintained a GitLab instance and GitLab CI runners for five years. It was fine. I still hated it. I loath maintaining infrastructure.
Sounds like you don't really have the skill to maintain it.
Oh fuck off. I’m not talking about the GitLab instance. Those aren’t hard. The trauma is from other stuff, but it adds a spicy flavor of stress and anxiety to all infrastructure work.
To each their own but ours didn't really require more than an hour a month at most. It's not running on cutting Edge hardware but chugs along pretty dependably. The back ups probably take the most time but even then ansible does most of the work and we bump the omnibus version once a month in off hours without issue.
It’s not as much time as it is stress, anxiety, and trauma. Being on call when shit breaks is fucking awful and my best coping strategy to date is refusing to be an infrastructure person and aggressively not giving a fuck when things are down for a day or two.
While it's possible to handle it better on your own, the point is that you shouldn't have to. It had better uptime before Microsoft purchased it. The fact that one of the largest companies in the world can't manage it is ridiculous.
Github has self-hosted options as well
Sounds dumb to be that dependent on a US platform in 2026 AD
Right? We’ve had two thousand and twenty six years since Christ walked the earth to reduce our dependency on GitHub, what are we even doing
Everyone knows we were banished from the garden of forejo after Steve made the Apple and even Jesus dying wasn't enough to let us go back.
What do you use for project management? What platform-less system are you using for that? Or are you saying to use a non-US platform? Do you have specifics.
Well couldn't you have your own self hosted "Git(hub)"?
For some reason tons of developers moved that amazing concept to depend as much on Microsoft cloud as possible for their workflows.
which is absolutely true until you wire your CI pipeline through it. Now it's a critical fucking deploy function for dev/stage/QA and maybe prod now with workflows.
Soo, don't do that?
You can run the pipelines locally. But it's complicated so it's better have your own scripts and keep the pipeline short.
There are more ways to set up a pipeline than there are ways to shuffle a deck of cards.
Everybody seems to like to tie back into online services. People like github workflows, and using NPMs and external DNS and docker Deps and JFrog. By the time you chain all those SLAs together you've got a bucket of risk the size of a small bus.
I try to push them as much as possible to use straight up bash scripts, and then call those with automation.
If it were solely up to me, I'd host my own repositories, but at some point, risk and safety end up losing out to some extent to features and feasibility.
You can do all that stuff without cloud services. Which IMO is the better way to do it. It's absolutely insane to me what people send to cloud services
It's possible to design your devex to require an unreliable SAAS vendor for even basic tasks! If you try hard enough you can logjam your entire team!
GitHub has actions etc. a lot of people don’t build locally. They push to GitHub and it builds, tests, deployed, does checks etc
You should be able to replicate at least some of that locally. If you can't work with GitHub down for a couple of hours, then it's a poorly set up project.
Tell me you don't actually code enterprise without telling me you don't actually code enterprise.
Nah. If your entire dev team has to be on pause when github is down, you're doing it wrong. Especially enterprise.
Sorry but that is just the reality these days. Instead of having local «it works on my computer» setups you have one place that builds
Off code you could run your own gitlab or whatever but it’s just cheaper and more efficient to buy a sass solution
You should have both. Having your entire dev team unable to work when one service is down is absurd.
Welcome to the world of SaaS I guess? It’s very standard. I mean GitHub used to have better uptime than you could achieve on your own.
It's not cheaper if nobody can work for hours.
Captain hindsight over here
You can still make a CI/CD pipeline that doesn't self combust every 5 minutes lol.