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0 pointsdrewbug011d ago0 comments

> EDIT: downvotes - why? - I think this is a good idea (I'd do it for my sites if outages were an issue).

Because that's a monumental amount of work, and extraordinarily difficult to retrofit into a system that wasn't initially designed that way. Not to mention the unstated requirement of mirroring traffic to actually exercise that system (given the tendency of bugs to not show up until something actually uses the system).

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nomilk1d ago

> that's a monumental amount of work

Agree, but look at the alternative; GitHub is constantly being savaged by users who (quite reasonably) expect uptime. Ignoring impacts on morale and reputation, damage to their bottom line alone might tens (hundreds?) of millions per year.

> mirroring traffic

yeah, I agree that's difficult, but it need to not be exact to still be useful.

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