Wasn’t my fault this time! I haven’t started work yet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237377
Uh oh. That means there's at least one more like you out there that we don't know about.
Incident with Actions and Pages
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#52Are 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.
Founder of Depot here. To my knowledge, we are the first engine to support different syntaxes in this compatible way via Depot CI [0]. Great time to try it out and let us know your thoughts! We’ve built a lot of cool stuff into it like parallel steps, custom images, and a full CLI/API interface so you can literally everything without going into the web app.
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#53Why do they go down so often? Is it true that the reason is that they've incorporated too much AI without human review?
The instability started well before vibecoding, in around 2018-2019, shortly after the Microsoft acquisition. https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591928
This gets posted every time GitHub is down. This chart is not accurate. It is based on data scraped from GitHub's status page and that data is missing historical incidents from the pre-Microsoft era.
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#54Are 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.
there are a couple and have very good reputation - though I've never used them
https://www.blacksmith.sh/ and https://runs-on.com/
They also say that they're much cheaper than github
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#55My action failed with "Unexpected error fetching GitHub release for tag refs/heads/master: HttpError: Sorry. Your account was suspended" Which certainly made me shit myself, briefly.
Same. It's weird how I always find out that GitHub is down before GitHub does. Took 15 minutes before it appeared on githubstatus.com
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#56microsoft github should work at restoring interop with noscript/basic HTML browsers...
I agree, but that's not at all related to this outage.
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#57Are 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.
Self-hosted action runners are not working too right now.
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#58Are 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.
This isn't resilient to this downtime though. Our self-hosted runners are currently not functioning because of some github dependency.
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#59Why do they go down so often? Is it true that the reason is that they've incorporated too much AI without human review?
I personally trigger github actions approximately 50x more than I did prior to AI-driven developer coding and I'm not alone.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, yes. A lot more repos, commits, and most importantly huge PRs. That makes sense. Thank you!
No, it doesn’t. Their competition is not similarly unstable, despite existing in the same world of LLMs. Think critically.
Devil’s advocate, Pareto heuristic would let us speculate that 80% of LLM traffic would be aimed directly at the largest provider, i.e. GitHub.