The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure
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shibel
Kinrany
I'll settle for git operations and PR merges not breaking.
da_chicken
I thought breaking every so often was already the dominant feature of GitHub actions.
skrtskrt
When it's broken is the only time it might not be an active security threat
onion2k
Chaos engineering as a service.
skrtskrt
Whereas functioning CI is just arbitrary shell scripts with glue and tape as a service.
intothemild
Yeah how else am I supposed to take a break or an afternoon nap
cosmic_quanta
I'm surprised at the level of detail presented in this post. Say what you will about the product, but I appreciate lifting the veil on what goes on behind the scenes.
MobileVet
I wonder if this post was planned prior to Anthropic's announcement regarding Github's inability to handle their volume of merges.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/redesigning-source-contro...
locknitpicker
> I wonder if this post was planned prior to Anthropic's announcement regarding Github's inability to handle their volume of merges.
It's worth noting that Anthropic claims 30k merges/day, but they state it's in a monorepo. This alone suggests to me that they are needlessly creating their own problem.
Instead of doing trivial and obvious things such as "perhaps we could peel off a project or two into their own repo" they decide to proclaim it makes sense to them to create their own version control system.
It's like they shoot themselves in the foot, and then announce they are going to develop armoured shoes to address issues with standard shoes regarding projectile resistance.
I can't help to wonder where the competent engineering ends and self promotion starts.
MobileVet
That’s a really good point. Thanks for the zoomed out perspective.
laura2013
i'd say yes. it's a 3 part series [oct 6](https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/bu...), next at their conf next week
mysh
Aw man, so they downgraded from their own DCs to Azure
coldtea
agent-scale is the new "Mongo is web-scale"
rayiner
How is github so bad? It regularly throws rate limit errors if you just try to see the recent commits on open source project. Was it always this way? Did Microsoft put the New Outlook team in charge of it?
JohnMakin
This is so tone deaf in timing, it could only be microsoft, and it (weirdly) makes me feel better.
philipallstar
Commentary on PR strategy is really low quality commentary.
lemonish97
Why is this "tone deaf in timing"? Isn't this addressing gh's biggest bottleneck at the moment?
throwaway69123
These changes seem to be correlated with huge instability. Is the instability caused by the increased use? Seems unlikely given the nature of some of the issues we have experienced. Or is it related to this move to azure infra under the guise of capacity but in reality, a longer term eating of github into the Microsoft mothership.
skrtskrt
It's been a lot worse recently but the increase in instability is fairly well correlated with how long it's been owned by Microsoft.
People have been on here complaining about GitHub being unstable for years and years
luis_valerio
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humbleRidge21
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Thanks I just want my GitHub actions to not break every so often though.