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by rattray 2188 days ago
Wow, that's stark. I count 6 in April-June (2 major outages) and only 1 in January-March (0 major outages.

I wonder if COVID has affected this somehow. Anecdotally I've heard of at least one other ~peer company with a large rise in incidents/outages since April.

Strange since both companies previously had a strong culture of remote work (maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of eng was remote) going into the pandemic, so I'd be quite surprised if all-WFH contributed somehow...
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rb12345 2188 days ago
If GitHub's been migrating to Azure infrastructure on the backend, it's possible that everyone else moving to all-WfH helped to cause it. Teams use massively increased during lockdown for obvious reasons and that's definitely Azure-based. If Teams managed to overload Azure capacity, I could see that having knock-on effects on GitHub.
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robertlagrant 2188 days ago
> it's possible that everyone else moving to all-WfH helped to cause it

No, MS prioritising Teams land grabbery is what caused it.

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rattray 2188 days ago
The other company does not use Azure.
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