Either they had a good month or I'm off my game, I actually spent a minute checking if I did something wrong with actions instead of immediately going to HN to see if it was an outage.
GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#182Given the recent history of outages, I wonder how many are seriously considering moving off GitHub for anything other than code hosting. I mean actions / workflows.
Mitchell Hashimoto had a blog post a few months ago talking about him moving off of GitHub: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github
This is a man who's spent a significant portion of every day for the last 15 years on GitHub.
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#183i guess this is a good time to mention that smol forge is open for the first 100 alpha users!
point clanker to forge.smol. ai/llms.txt
for now its just a fast agent native git remote and u can check docs for the extras.
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#1845 hours going now and the entire thing is still completely down. This level of incompetence and their total disrespect for their customers is unbelievable.
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#185Time to rant... This is absolutely unreal.
Even self-hosted runners are impacted.... How can that be?
The cost of this globally has got to be in the hundreds of millions to companies that use CI/CD through GitHub Actions. What if prod is broken and GitHub actions is stalling the deployment of your hotfix? What if this makes your organization miss and SLA and diminish user trust? What if this makes you miss a release that you were contractually obligated to meet? This is happening during peak dev hours on a Thursday (not that it would be acceptable at any other time).
I don't understand how a service this critical to the global technical infrastructure can fail like this at all, let alone for more than a few hours. Like where's the backup generator for crises like these? You can't even use self-hosted runners? WTF? Like how can you not bring your own backup in a crisis event like this?
Not that Microsoft has a good reputation, but holy moly, you'd think they would prepare from something inevitable like this.
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#186I don't think this portents anything great for software in general. We're a good year+ into the use LLMs for all major bits of software that we all rely upon and GitHub here is down to one 9 of uptime. I've been using GitHub for a _long_ time, my first commits there go back to August 2009!, and I honestly don't recall GitHub going down as much as it has in the last year. I'm sure there's other things happening in the…
Microsoft acquisition which forced to migrate all to Azure.
I can totally buy that this is a larger contributor! Thank you, I wasn't aware that it was going on right now.
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#187Time to rant... This is absolutely unreal. Even self-hosted runners are impacted.... How can that be? The cost of this globally has got to be in the hundreds of millions to companies that use CI/CD through GitHub Actions. What if prod is broken and GitHub actions is stalling the deployment of your hotfix? What if this makes your organization miss and SLA and diminish user trust? What if this makes you miss a release…
Counterparty risk is still a thing. This is the cost of convenience, reminds me of the milkman joke in that South Park episode. Maybe a global SPOF owned by people who do not care is not the way to go.
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#188I was scratching my head wondering why my build file isnt working, ran a working project and it didn't build either. Figured out what might be the case, but wasted an hour.
I was complaining about how I should have used AI instead of manual brainwork for this instead but turns out that might have been the problem.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
they walked that back for now at least - self-hosted gh runners are still free: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/...
Well, they're still implemented that way.
Can you share a source for this? it's not that I don't believe you but I've had difficulties finding one.
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft is not a serious company anymore.
They never were. They were just really good at maintaining the bluster and backing it up with expensive lawyers. Now that they don't come in claws-first like they did when they were a NASDAQ rocket to the stars, it's easy to see. Their MO was to court an executive and sell second-rate tools to them before the people who had to use them had a chance to say anything. It doesn't matter how much evidence you can provide…
Microsoft in the 90-s and early 2000-s was a serious company. Windows NT and Office were engineering marvels.
Windows 95 was a brilliant hack that allowed 32-bit GUI programs to run on hardware with 2Mb of RAM (Windows had 4Mb of RAM as the official minimum, but you could run it on 2Mb) while preserving compatibility with the majority of DOS software.