Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud went down 'hard' today

If you were unable to access Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud today, it's because in the words of the IT giant, the service was "hard down." The outage, which affected the website and Git hosting, is said to have kicked off at 1530 UTC on Tuesday, with the Australian collaboration software slinger reporting an "unresolved incident …

[James 51]

Everything is for the best, in the best of all possible clouds.

I am sure glad that we were forced off on site hosting and have to rely on someone else's computer always being up and available. Well, at least it wasn't something really essential like JIRA.

[IGotOut]

DNS....

....it's always DNS.

[Someone Else]

Re: DNS....

No, its the firewall...

[Gerhard den Hollander]

Re: DNS....

The firewall is blocking DNS

[CowHorseFrog]

Re: DNS....

The story mentioned DB, im going to guess some disk got full.

[Abominator]

Cloud first they said

Cloud first and they fucked you for it.

Seriously, can't move away fast enough from Atlassian products.

They deleted peoples source code the other year with no backups.

[Spamfast]

K.I.S.S.

I am repeatedly baffled as to why anyone chooses to pay for Atlassian product. At first glance the web UIs look very shiny but once you start to use them you realize how disfunctional they are. Bitbucket provides nothing that services like Github or others don't. Confluence is a piss poor wiki/colab/CMS compared to many others. And Jira, well Jira, is possibly the most inflexible, sluggish, non-intuitive issue tracker I've used. Even Mantis & Bugzilla are better and Jira doesn't even come close to addressing the sort of peer review that should be de rigueur these days let alone safety or security critical development regulatory requirements.

There are open source integrated systems that provide the same functionality available online, self-hosted or hybrid. In the past I've rolled more effective systems piecemeal from the likes of Subversion, Mantis et al.

The only worse sets of tools I've used are PTC's (Windchill PLM ...) and LDRA's code analysis, especially given the eye-watering prices they charge.

[Andy 68]

> The om;y worse set of tools....

You've not used Gerrit, then?

/spit

[Spamfast]

Re: > The om;y worse set of tools....

You've not used Gerrit, then?

Oh my. I'd forgotten about (or possibly blanked the memories of) Gerrit.

[flayman]

Re: K.I.S.S.

We use Atlassian because having tried numerous CMS systems over the years, Confluence is the only one that has clicked with authors, who just "get it" and actually like writing documentation there. Jira has also revolutionised our service management in that people actually communicate with each other. Fancy that. It's all down to the alerting, which just works. Jira's workflow engine is actually very flexible, so we've taken to using Jira software projects for data capture and other things. I'm writing and publishing custom Forge macros for Confluence and it's actually pretty cool. All in all, despite some gripes, we're happy with it.

[CowHorseFrog]

How sad is it that a company who makes alerting systems couldnt monitor their own systems for a disk full event BEFOre the system died....