Runtime is separate from deployment. An incident in your deployment infra doesn't affect production. The fact that you may have to deploy to change what's live is what defines it as an incident, but it's still a different thing from a production incident.

From "nothing to do with" to "separate", I'd say we're making progress.

Deployment is how you fix problems with the runtime. Not just availability, shortcomings. I'm not going back and forth about this, there is a relationship here. Man architects, God laughs.

Here's a fun phrase to latch onto: 'escape', production is the test environment we all share.

GitHub goes down, yes, your service remains. For now. We chose to not wait, suggest others don't either. I agree in spirit with the GP. Misfortune is the fortune that never misses.

Their nines aren't yours, you bet.