It used to be having GitHub in the critical path for deployment wasn't so bad, but these days you'd have to be utterly irresponsible to work that way.

They need to get a grip on this.

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MattGaiser 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Eh, the lesson from us-east-1 outage is that you should cling to the big ones instead. You get the convenience + nobody gets mad at you over the failure.

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bhouston 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Everything will have periods of unreliability. The only solution is to be multi-everything (multi-provider for most things), but the costs for that are quite high and hard to see the value in that.

	▲	dylan604 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		yes, but if you are going to provide assurances like SLAs, you need to be aware of your own allow for them. if you're customers require working with known problem areas, you should add a clause exempting those areas when they are the cause.