I entirely agree with this. GitHub gets so much advertising + community from open source projects like this.
Also, I'm amazed this is even a problem. 5 CPUs is not a lot in the scheme of things (even if they mean physical instead of cores). TBs of bandwidth are also virtually free compared to a company the size of Github.
Even better: they are getting basically real world loadtested for free and finding loads of pain points, which may hit paying customers.
Unless I'm missing something, fire more metal at the problem. Many companies would love to be able to have every single cocoapod user (which is nearly every iOS developer) have to type github.com into their terminal for the cost of a bunch of servers + some bandwidth.
Pretty strange, unless this is hitting some really bad area of their service that can't easily be scaled out of (but i would be surprised)
>>Even better: they are getting basically real world loadtested for free and finding loads of pain points, which may hit paying customers.
I think their point is that it's using the system in a way that isn't intended or desired. How does that count as "real world" load testing?
And by that logic, shouldn't anybody who gets hit with a DoS attack just say "thanks"? It's tons of free load testing on your network infrastructure, and you'll definitely find some pain points.
Also, I'm amazed this is even a problem. 5 CPUs is not a lot in the scheme of things (even if they mean physical instead of cores). TBs of bandwidth are also virtually free compared to a company the size of Github.
Even better: they are getting basically real world loadtested for free and finding loads of pain points, which may hit paying customers.
Unless I'm missing something, fire more metal at the problem. Many companies would love to be able to have every single cocoapod user (which is nearly every iOS developer) have to type github.com into their terminal for the cost of a bunch of servers + some bandwidth.
Pretty strange, unless this is hitting some really bad area of their service that can't easily be scaled out of (but i would be surprised)