Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition
MBech@feddit.dk 1 week ago
How does this corrospond with growth? I imagine having 100% uptime is much harder the bigger a platform is, so did Github grow a lot in the same period?
I’m not questioning wether or not Microsft has issues, I just find it relevant wether or not they very suddenly saw a 2000% increase in server usage or something.
jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
its not there are scale points where once you hit a critical number you need to re-architect your backend. 1k,10k,1mil, etc. usually these vary based on your app. but they’re usually exponential so once you hit the higher levels it takes much longer to reach the next level.
on top of that you usually by the higher tiers have proper backpressure and signals being sent to the frontend systems to dynamically manage the load generated. so suddenly uptime is much easier.
when you see large repeated failures like this the cause is almost always corporate causing issues.