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Brandon Savage
brandonsavage.net · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Brandon Savage, a PHP developer, writes about programming practice, careers, hiring, remote work and selling your own products.
What HN saysHN commenters cite his GitHub post when discussing how many services depend on GitHub as a single point of failure.
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erikig · 2020-06-29
So many services rely on github that it has become a single point of failure for online infrastructure as we’ve come to know it. I remember seeing this shared many years ago [1] and not much seems to have changed in the interim. If anything the MS acquisition has only exacerbated matters.
[1] https://www.brandonsavage.net/github-your-single-point-of-failure/