The entire GitHub site was unavailable. The "unicorn" page. Total outage. Visible to every user. Worst-case scenario.
> Application backends?
I don't think I'm taking crazy pills to suggest that it's preferable for services like rendering PR diffs, MR merge trains, even accepting new Git commit pushes, to be temporarily unavailable, so that the entire web application doesn't fall over, and cache-friendly read-only workloads continue to succeed.
> Application backends?
I don't think I'm taking crazy pills to suggest that it's preferable for services like rendering PR diffs, MR merge trains, even accepting new Git commit pushes, to be temporarily unavailable, so that the entire web application doesn't fall over, and cache-friendly read-only workloads continue to succeed.