GitHub actions has been like this for years now. Years. Years!!!!
And the crazy thing is you see people on HN demanding that some one person side project/SaaS has to be at 100% uptime with multiple failovers, automatic scaling, etc. etc. There is such an emphasis on scalability on HN and yet... you just brush that all away because "software is tough." Yeah, no shit. Poor Github. They are also Microsoft now. One of the wealthiest corporations in the entire world. And people are paying Github. This isn't Twitter fail whale we're talking about.
> And the crazy thing is you see people on HN demanding that some one person side project/SaaS has to be at 100% uptime with multiple failovers, automatic scaling, etc. etc. There is such an emphasis on scalability on HN and yet... you just brush that all away because "software is tough.
I'm not one of those people. I may have been when I was much more inexperienced.
Software is hard. Full stop. Organizational politics, engineering culture, business / tech alignment are all hard. Distributed systems are hard.
> Yeah, no shit. Poor Github. They are also Microsoft now. One of the wealthiest corporations in the entire world. And people are paying Github. This isn't Twitter fail whale we're talking about.
I may have also thought this when I was much more inexperienced. This isn't a resource problem. Even a small startup, when they start having failures due to scale from growth, it's not a money problem. Throwing money at this doesn't make it go away.
By the way, the Twitter fail whale impacted paying customers (advertisers).
And the crazy thing is you see people on HN demanding that some one person side project/SaaS has to be at 100% uptime with multiple failovers, automatic scaling, etc. etc. There is such an emphasis on scalability on HN and yet... you just brush that all away because "software is tough." Yeah, no shit. Poor Github. They are also Microsoft now. One of the wealthiest corporations in the entire world. And people are paying Github. This isn't Twitter fail whale we're talking about.