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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 15 hours ago

Boss, we still have two nines!

89.91%

[-] Willdrick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I see a four-nine right there on the screenshot

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

For context, this isn't 100% true.

This is from a third-party tracker, who took the downtime of every GitHub hosted service and added them together. So a bunch of stuff that was down 0.5% of time and/or some beta+new release services down for longer make it look way worse than the core service uptime actually is.

[-] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

For even more context: That means that 89% of the time all parts that make up github work without issue. 11% of the time at least one component has issues/downtime.

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ shows the breakdown, git push/pull operations for example have 98.98% uptime.

[-] stardreamer 4 points 1 day ago

Of all things, how does core functionality NOT have 4 nines???

[-] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Look on the bright side, it's only 3,5 days of downtime a year.

https://uptime.is/98.98

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Good info. Either way, switch to Codeberg. 😉

[-] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Switched to self-hosted Forgejo already so now I'm just waiting for my dependencies to switch.

10 minutes ago my forgejo test failed because github returned a 502 for the home-manager repo •-•

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yea, I run Gitea for my personal work and we run our for our business, mainly because I started before the Forgejo fork. At some point I'll migrate over.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 192 points 2 days ago

This is what happens to nearly every business Microsoft buys or invest in. They're the enshittiers.

Sony is a close second, BTW 😁

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Cloudflare has been pretty bad too lately. Its like the big companies are not even trying anymore. And if a real war broke out...their facilities are all centralized and VERY easy to target. Keeps me up at night sometimes since a vast majority of services at work are all on central servers.

In theory the internet self corrects. But in practice, if AWS/Cloudflare/MS/etc...goes down, a LOT of other services you dont even know about are effected. Last AWS issue took down Azure as well as people were scrambling to get servers back up and running (among other things).

[-] haerrii@feddit.org 31 points 2 days ago

Ah the classic EEE strategy: Embrace, expand, enshittify.

[-] entwine@programming.dev 23 points 2 days ago

Sony is a close second, BTW

Do you have any examples? I'm not familiar with any major acquisitions Sony has made. Afaik the "acquire company, fire everyone, and run the business into the ground" strategy is mostly an American phenomenon.

[-] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 23 points 2 days ago

Sony pictures just closed Pixelmondo after running it further into the ground

[-] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

Don't forget closing Bluepoint after multiple very successful remakes!

If they just let them remake Bloodborn, they would've been allowed to just print money

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

That's what AI first development gets you.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 18 points 2 days ago

They were doing that before “AI” development was a thing

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

Look through the history. In 2024 and before that they consistently had 97+%, only rarely dipping down to 95 and once 92%.

Since February 2026 they have been constantly in the 80s.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Ok…? That doesn’t change the fact that Microsoft was enshitifying the software they bought before “AI” was a thing. They didn’t suddenly start doing it when LLMs happened.

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

They enshittified, yes, but uptime isn't a topic of enshittification. You don't make more money by reducing uptime.

Uptime, especially for a critical service like Github, that tons of businesses actually depend on, is a sign of not being able to keep your infrastructure and development under control. And getting below 90% is really, really shameful.

Sony is a close second, BTW 😁

Crunchyroll had a major security breach earlier this week

[-] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 20 points 2 days ago
[-] electricyarn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I think the 8 in the 10s spot negates it right. sorry if im being a doofus

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

good job vibe coding your ass to losing customers... hopefully.

[-] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 2 days ago

There's two nines there: "95 issues in last 90 days"

[-] ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 15 points 2 days ago

Nein Nein Nein!

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 17 points 2 days ago

and a partridge in a pear tree

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

There are two more surrounding the decimal point, too! Four nines!

[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago

And if you sum four 9s you get 36. Sum those digits and you get 9 again. I think that's how numerology works?

[-] logi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It is. For any sufficiently small value of "works".

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 66 points 2 days ago

Technically still 9’s just in the wrong places.

[-] Dultas@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Technically it has exceeded 9% as well.

[-] dwt@feddit.org 26 points 2 days ago
[-] eah@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago

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[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 days ago

What an absolute achievement, nice work Microslop!

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Really makes it want to migrate to Azure for your hosting, eh?

[-] addie@feddit.uk 20 points 2 days ago

Azure's documentation is the worst fucking bullshit that I've ever read in all my days, and just about every single page or tool (including the CLI) has an integrated slopbot that routinely recommends commands and REST endpoints that don't exist; it's slow as fuck, and to do even the simplest things is agonising. But to give them their dues, their recent uptime has been pretty good.

Truth be told, I've even come round to thinking that I prefer using Azure to Google Cloud Platform. Using any of Azure's features is a pleasure akin to cutting yourself with a rusty nail and then falling in a sewer, but at least it has some features. GCP is like they implemented a quarter of the very basic functionality and then got fed up, decided to call it a day.

[-] marlowe221@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you for saying that about the documentation.

I work in an Azure shop and I’m in charge of our infrastructure… sometimes I feel like, surely I am an idiot… I must be incompetent to not understand something in some Azure service…

But no, the imposter syndrome spike that Azure sometimes triggers in me is NOT actually me being deficient in some way. Their documentation is truly awful. And often the solution to the problem is found by asking myself, “What is the dumbest way Microsoft could have implemented this thing?” And that turns out to be right!

Thank you for confirming that I have not completely lost my mind and it’s not just me.

[-] grandma@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Deleting or creating resources will randomly take 20-45 minutes sometimes lol

[-] Teppa@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've been using it for a while now and am surprised how shitty it is. I remember not having a routing table and it allowed a single packet to be routed to the endpoint and then stop, it doesnt even make sense how that can happen. Intune is even worse, its missing extremely basic functionality, you cant even clone a device config its that bad.

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I work with an azure database and 15% (!) of the time the connection handshake times out for no reason known to man.
This is well documented on their end. The solution? 'Implement a retry logic'

[-] Hirom@beehaw.org 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Low to average reliability is fine if the service is cheap, and if that avoid the need for backup diesel generators in datacenters.

I doubt this applied to Github:

Microsoft to use diesel-fired generators as backup power for data centers

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