GitHub's Website Remains Broken After a Data Storage System Failed Earlier Today (theregister.co.uk) 66
Github engineers are trying to repair the data storage system underpinning the code hosting website, which has been presenting users with a "What!?" error for much of the Sunday. From a report: Depending on where you are, you may have been working on some Sunday evening programming, or getting up to speed with work on a Monday morning, using resources on GitHub.com -- and possibly failing miserably as a result of the outage. From about 4pm US West Coast time on Sunday, the website has been stuttering and spluttering. Specifically, the site is still up and serving pages -- it's just intermittently serving out-of-date files, and ignoring submitted Gists, bug reports, and posts. Sometimes, it appears to be serving a read-only cache or older backup of itself, although some fresh code pushes are coming through onto the site. From the status page, it appears a data storage system died, forcing the platform's engineers to move the dot-com's files over to another box. In the meantime, some older versions of files and repos are being served to visitors and users. "We're continuing to work on migrating a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com," the team said just after 5pm PT, adding in the past few minutes: "We are continuing to repair a data storage system for GitHub.com. You may see inconsistent results during this process."
INb4 (Score:5, Funny)
INb4 "Microsoft Broke It!" - they've yet to actually take over. They're still waiting on government approval of the acquisition.
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GitHub's resident Guru must Meditate before it can approve the acquisition.
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Maybe MS doesn't want it after this.
Re: INb4 (Score:2, Interesting)
Actually DNS records show it already transfered to Microsoft.
Re: INb4 (Score:1)
Obviously Microsoft converted GitHub over to Windows 10 when they bought it. I guess it just decided to auto-update and eat all their (our) files....
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Makes you wonder if they left a dead man switch to fuck over Microsoft..
Microsoft (Score:3)
First day under Microsoft (Score:3)
"All ops staff required to use pure HoloLens interface with floating console and keyboard!"
*Github immediately convulses*
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That's a god damn good idea! Will help all those boring days at work! Thank you kind sir for adding another troll to slashdot for the lulz.
Use SourceForge Instead (Score:1)
If you'd been using SourceForge instead, you wouldn't have to deal with the outage.
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And somehow managed to muddle through to this day without serious drama. While Sourceforge isn't to my taste, they still host a lot of projects and the price is right.
Re: Use SourceForge Instead (Score:4, Interesting)
For what it's worth, sourceforge is still here and googlecode isn't. Probably says more about Google's baby-eating culture than anything.
Re: Use SourceForge Instead (Score:2)
Nobody uses sourceforge. Outdated codebase. I forget which fork is still open source for gforge, but it's better.
For commercial projects, Atlassian is now industry standard. It's good for funded open source, too, if a little overkill.
Of course, a central server on a distributed system like git seems pointless.
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Right. Because you'd never have more than one developer in one location working on a project. Sheesh.
What is there storage back end? and what VM system (Score:2)
What is there storage back end? and what VM system? are they useing?
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A possible clue:
Moving to bare metal and federated storage on Rackspace has brought our average Rails response time to consistently under 100ms [github.com]
But that post is ancient.
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Another possible clue:
I’m a developer on Openstack’s object storage system, and I believe that Openstack is uniquely positioned to achieve this vision. [programmerthoughts.com]
In contrast, I believe that Openstack is a steaming pile of impenetrable Python poo, especially its storage architecture. [openstack.org] If this is indeed their platform then I am not at all surprised to hear that Github admins are now busy failing their files over manually.
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Nice troll, that was sweet.
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The storage back-end is called The Cloud, and it stores The Bits. Fortunately, everything is backed up a million times in Git, so somebody has a copy.
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Except for the github source code, which is in Subversion.
Kind of just like how they trashed Sidekick.... (Score:2, Funny)
Does anyone remember back when they trashed most of the cloud data of Sidekick smartphone users shortly after they acquired the company? This was even covered by Slashdot!
https://hardware.slashdot.org/... [slashdot.org]
Looks like a repeat of the bumbling.
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The storage system heard that it would soon be acquired by Microsoft and had a heart attack :)
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Microsoft probably sent their advance team in years ago to soften them up like they did with Nokia.
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if not being able to make posts and gists breaks your workflow to the point of "failing miserably"...then you are just a miserable failure :-)
I know right? And any shining star such as yourself out to be able to still succeed brilliantly even if their source repo serves out random files.
Which data storage system? (Score:5, Insightful)
Which data storage sytem would that be? Brand and model. I want to know so that I can think badly of it, or possibly of the persons who configured it, but most probably the vendor.
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You can break the worst systems by configuring them correctly.
What's the problem? (Score:2)
Microsoft would just run CHKDSK to fix it.
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Indeed they would, and when they do complete the acquisition they will copy all the storage to drive c: so it is easier to run CHKDSK. If anything goes wrong then Abort, retry, ignore?
A hub for gits... (Score:2)
Thanks Microsoft.
Breaking shit and blowing stuff up...
Terminate and Stay Resident (Score:1)
Isn't that what Microsoft did to most acquisitions?
Probably upgraded to Win10.... (Score:2)
That thing does seem to delete files whenever it feels like.
Git working for me, but not Travis on the PRs (Score:2)
Just bring back Google Code (Score:2)