It’s been recently noticeable that me and my team have had to halt development or progress due to a Github outage. This has been much more visible since Microsoft acquired Github As an SRE myself, I can’t help but wonder what is going on at Github/Microsoft… Is it because Github moved to Azure and the real cause of unrelaiblity is that Azure can’t cope? Is it because Github has a ton more features that are not well built? ...
It has been a while since I’ve been working as SRE/Platform/Cloud Engineer, and lately and I realize I’ve been repeating some questions to developers that I rarely get an answer for straight away. These are not meant to make anyone’s life harder, au contraire, the whole pourpose of having a solid answer to this list of questions, is to make everyone less worried about the probabilty of some high stakes, overnight failure or a data handling missuse that could potentially cause big losses, and of course a lot of unnecessary stress. ...