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0 pointsestimator729212d ago0 comments

Sure, but frontend devs fundamentally cannot contribute to the structural reliability issues.

The person who rewrote the issue page view probably doesn't know anything about multi-cloud scaling for millions of users with Azure-crippling throughput. That's an incredibly specialized set of knowledge and experience that is utterly disjunct to frontend work.

But at the same time, given the state that GitHub is in, I personally wouldn't want to allow any devs to push anything to prod that doesn't immediately affect stability. I'd completely freeze frontend work until the infrastructure is more stable. But then again I write C for microcontrollers so what do I know?

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chillfox11d ago

I disagree with that, There’s likely quite a bit frontend devs can do to improve things. Stuff like optimising the requests to reduce the load being put on the backend.

tedd4u12d ago

I don't know their architecture but I would bet if FE devs wants to contribute to availability in a capacity-constrained world (as GH CTO mentions) they could focus on profiling and optimization, backend-access patterns for example, caching, etc. Maybe they already have people dedicated on that but if they are coming out of a "new features first" operating regime I would bet there's some fruit to pick there.

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chillfox11d ago

I disagree with that, There’s likely quite a bit frontend devs can do to improve things. Stuff like optimising the requests to reduce the load being put on the backend.

tedd4u12d ago

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