But this is getting pretty serious.
This is the 3rd time in these last few weeks there has been a "significant service outage"
So much of a typical dev workflow is based around github, but more importantly a lot of new package managers use github as a base. Not being able to pull dependencies is a fairly big problem.
I will continue to use github, because they're awesome. At the same time, we're going to have to start building around it to ensure our uptime isn't reliant on their (less than optimal) uptime.
I wouldn't call this "building around" GitHub. Git's nature promotes this kind of thing.
So I have had to create a secondary remote, and for private projects, it's really easy to do so. Which is kinda problematic, because those are the accounts that keep the lights on for Github. If I have to cut budget, it's a lot more likely now that I would consider cutting the private repos.
I just hope they figure this out soon, so I can forget about how easy it was.
wait a minute...
