Just like every company, they sometimes have things break, push out code that doesn't behave as expected, hit limits on various services they weren't aware of, etc.
The complexity of technical systems is massive especially when they are constantly changing. It's not helped that these companies have high availability requirements and need to be online 100% of the time even when making updates.
I love github as a product but for the past months, issues are a weekly occurance, often multiple times a week, and always in the middle of the day (Europe).
The complexity of technical systems is massive especially when they are constantly changing. It's not helped that these companies have high availability requirements and need to be online 100% of the time even when making updates.
Makes me want to do embedded programming.