The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure

Posted by Klaster_1 19 hours ago

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Comment by shibel 17 hours ago

Thanks I just want my GitHub actions to not break every so often though.

Comment by Kinrany 14 hours ago

I'll settle for git operations and PR merges not breaking.

Comment by da_chicken 17 hours ago

I thought breaking every so often was already the dominant feature of GitHub actions.

Comment by skrtskrt 13 hours ago

When it's broken is the only time it might not be an active security threat

Comment by onion2k 15 hours ago

Chaos engineering as a service.

Comment by skrtskrt 13 hours ago

Whereas functioning CI is just arbitrary shell scripts with glue and tape as a service.

Comment by intothemild 17 hours ago

Yeah how else am I supposed to take a break or an afternoon nap

Comment by cosmic_quanta 14 hours ago

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.

Comment by MobileVet 14 hours ago

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...

Comment by laura2013 13 hours ago

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

Comment by locknitpicker 5 hours ago

> 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.

Comment by rayiner 1 hour ago

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?

Comment by mysh 5 hours ago

Aw man, so they downgraded from their own DCs to Azure

Comment by JohnMakin 16 hours ago

This is so tone deaf in timing, it could only be microsoft, and it (weirdly) makes me feel better.

Comment by lemonish97 16 hours ago

Why is this "tone deaf in timing"? Isn't this addressing gh's biggest bottleneck at the moment?

Comment by throwaway69123 13 hours ago

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.

Comment by skrtskrt 13 hours ago

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