The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure

8 comments

• shibel 12 hours ago
  Thanks I just want my GitHub actions to not break every so often though.
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  • Kinrany 9 hours ago
    I'll settle for git operations and PR merges not breaking.
  • da_chicken 12 hours ago
    I thought breaking every so often was already the dominant feature of GitHub actions.
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    • skrtskrt 8 hours ago
      When it's broken is the only time it might not be an active security threat
    • onion2k 11 hours ago
      Chaos engineering as a service.
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      • skrtskrt 8 hours ago
        Whereas functioning CI is just arbitrary shell scripts with glue and tape as a service.
    • intothemild 12 hours ago
      Yeah how else am I supposed to take a break or an afternoon nap
• mysh 43 minutes ago
  Aw man, so they downgraded from their own DCs to Azure
• cosmic_quanta 9 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.
• MobileVet 9 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...

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  • locknitpicker 1 hour 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.
  • laura2013 8 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
• JohnMakin 12 hours ago
  This is so tone deaf in timing, it could only be microsoft, and it (weirdly) makes me feel better.
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  • lemonish97 12 hours ago
    Why is this "tone deaf in timing"? Isn't this addressing gh's biggest bottleneck at the moment?
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    • throwaway69123 8 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.
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      • skrtskrt 8 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
  • philipallstar 11 hours ago
    Commentary on PR strategy is really low quality commentary.
• humbleRidge21 11 hours ago
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• luis_valerio 10 hours ago
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