[clug] Microsoft Has Acquired GitHub

Bob Edwards bob at cs.anu.edu.au
Wed Jun 6 23:49:54 UTC 2018


On 07/06/18 09:30, Mike Carden wrote:
> Most amusing was the fact that on Tuesday, Gitlab's Prometheus server 
> ran out of RAM and crashed due to the unprecedented level of imports. 
> They fixed it and you can see some stats here:
> 
> https://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/github-importer
> 
> -- 
> MC
> 
> 

Sounds a bit census'esque - except the census people had 5 years to
prepare whereas Gitlab had almost no notice of the M$ buyout of GitHub.

Good on them for getting their act together so quickly.

cheers,

Bob Edwards.



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