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Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Post by ketzu »

sebmellen wrote: post #17
bouk wrote: post #14

Insane, we have to come up with contingency plans now for long-duration GitHub outages because we can't safely do deployments. For a service we're paying thousands of $ per year for even though we host runners ourselves...

Same here. You’d think they could at least separate out the GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners, so you’re still able to dispatch jobs if the self-hosted runners are down.

If the job queue is down, that wouldn't help, would it?

On my repo the jobs do not get scheduled on the PRs at all, so I assume that separation wouldn't help for todays issue.

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Post by cautiouscat »

altern8 wrote: post #16

Why do they go down so often? Is it true that the reason is that they've incorporated too much AI without human review?

Microsoft has boasted 30% of their code written by AI.[1] However we could only guess if AI generated code is the issue or something else, or a combination of things.

That being said there was a noticeable trend starting around 2022.[2] That being said they’ve also been doing a big migration to Azure. It’s likely a combination of things.

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-a...

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s/LOMPaSv3wY

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Post by gilrain »

cebert wrote: post #30
altern8 wrote: post #16

Why do they go down so often? Is it true that the reason is that they've incorporated too much AI without human review?

GitHub had a blog post about this recently. They reported a significant uptick in volume (repos created, PRs, etc.), which they attribute to AI usage and tooling.

Do you really believe their competition hasn’t seen the same increase? Because their competition certainly hasn’t seen the same instability issues.

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Post by conroydave »

kminehart wrote: post #26

Are there any GitHub Actions-compatible CI services out there that don't rely on their infrastructure? I know of depot's but no others; are these resilient to these outages or do they still lose functionality? I imagine the latter but I don't know.

github actions themselves can be self hosted, its quite nice actually to be able to keep your same patterns as cloud hosted actions and with one line change to the yaml have it running on your own hardware. I do this for actions that take 6-7 hours so I am not burning through the 3000 minutes that come free with my account.
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