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27 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 11 stories, 16 comments · first 2011-12-23 · latest 2021-06-02

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  1. As far as I know GitHub doesn't use Azure at all, I think it's still hosted by Carpathia. https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
    comment by MaxBarraclough · 2021-06-02 · in GitHub was having issues
  2. …a reboot of downtime, the ability to easily transform your virtual HDD into a virtual SSD, etc. [0] https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
    comment by MaxBarraclough · 2020-11-23 · in Open-source paved the way for today’s remote software development processes
  3. …the bargain-bin VPS providers. GitHub for instance is apparently [0] hosted by Carpathia [1]. [0] https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553 [1] http://www.carpathia.com/ (they should really fix https://www.carpathia.com )
    comment by MaxBarraclough · 2020-07-23 · in Designing a scalable API on AWS spot instances
  4. …control isn't a compelling advantage, it's another way of saying you have more obligations. [0] https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
    comment by MaxBarraclough · 2020-06-29 · in GitHub was down
  5. …from a flat structure to a hierarchical is probably a good case study to read if you're interested: https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/800
    comment by dumbfoundded · 2020-05-13 · in Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
  6. I don't think they mainly run on AWS, but on "bare metal": https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
    comment by akx · 2020-02-28 · in GitHub was down
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    How do you reliably host a marketing site and a single page app?
    story by Walkman · 2017-11-22 · 0 comments
  8. …to give talks on Github scaling challenges revealed they shifted from Rackspace. See yourself - https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
    comment by worldexplorer · 2017-07-31 · in GitHub was down
  9. No they shifted from Rackspace. https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
    comment by worldexplorer · 2017-07-31 · in GitHub was down
  10. They ran out of rackspace now they are on real hardware. https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/553
    comment by worldexplorer · 2017-07-31 · in GitHub was down
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    How did managers get introduced at GitHub, and did it really change everything?
    story by craigkerstiens · 2016-10-12 · 1 comment
  12. I really like Zach Holman's comment on this one. --- [0]: https://github.com/holman/ama/issues/698#issuecomment-118547... I can't remember who said it initially, but my favorite sentiment on all this is: > The only people still using Ruby…
    comment by octref · 2016-05-16 · in Ruby has been fast enough for 13 years
  13. ▲ 1
    How [do] activity feeds on individual issues aggregate events on GitHub
    story by bado · 2015-09-01 · 0 comments
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    Daily things you can do to help with writing code
    story by mrry · 2015-05-25 · 0 comments
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    Zach Holman on Photos.app
    story by sethvargo · 2015-04-13 · 1 comment
  16. …that Zach Holman at Github addresses in why Github doesn't really communicate about their roadmap: https://github.com/holman/feedback/issues/534 In our case it was because we were basing all of our roadmap on how we operated in 2012 when…
    comment by raiyu · 2014-05-09 · in Digital Ocean: Limited Public IPv6 Beta Release
  17. …companies should stop promising things if they are not sure when and if they can actually deliver. https://github.com/holman/feedback/issues/534#issuecomment-4...
    comment by wereHamster · 2014-05-05 · in CloudFlare's internet-facing SSL cipher configuration
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    Zach Holman responds to: Why doesn't GitHub talk about their product roadmap?
    story by bjcubsfan · 2014-04-29 · 0 comments
  19. Holman has one too: https://github.com/holman/feedback
    comment by steveklabnik · 2014-04-10 · in Dear GitHub: Please let us sort our projects
  20. It seems that Holman has already used it 5 months ago. https://github.com/holman/feedback/issues/432
    comment by jupiterrr · 2014-02-26 · in GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter
  21. ▲ 2
    How do decisions get made at GitHub?
    story by bpierre · 2013-10-01 · 0 comments
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    GitHub's internal talk-recording system
    story by reledi · 2013-07-22 · 0 comments
  23. ▲ 1
    Why to hire people who get frustrated easily?
    story by isarat · 2013-04-18 · 0 comments
  24. ▲ 2
    How would you run a 30,000 person software company?
    story by DanielRibeiro · 2013-04-02 · 0 comments
  25. …downside IMHO is salary (it has been stated people generally have the same base salary at GitHub - https://github.com/holman/feedback/issues/150 ). Egalitarian salary structures work for some but also have their downsides.
    comment by petercooper · 2012-06-05 · in What's it like to work at GitHub?
  26. Keynote. You might be interested in: http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/ https://github.com/holman/feedback/issues/71
    comment by holman · 2012-01-29 · in How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub
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    Github Server Hosting?
    story by BenSchaechter · 2011-12-23 · 0 comments