At this point maybe they should consider sending out announcements when it is working instead
#0-nines
Hey, there's still plenty if you don't mind the leading 8
GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#102Given 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.
how hard could it be these days for a mid to large size eng company to have their own gitlab/hub type solution hosted in aws
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#103Given 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.
To offer a data point (not a tribalist argument): GitHub Actions being down this often is still less expensive than the cost of switching everything somewhere else. Would rather have my team walk away from the PRs and do other tasks than have engineering effort, meetings, design pages, scheduling, etc. for switching over. This is annoying and I'm here because it's down. But it would have to be far worse to come close…
A case study in vendor lock-in.
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#104My experience working at LinkedIn was that, after Microsoft took over, they offshored a huge part of their infrastructure and turned the entire culture into one of performative based engineering instead of results based engineering.
If you implemented a tool and it worked one time for your presentation to management that's all that mattered.
The actual company employees using it downstream in prod basically had to constantly QA the alpha software they were forced to use and the authors of the tool were hard to track down if they even still worked there. And if you did find the author or the team they would be very resistant to admitting there was an issue because it LOOKED bad.
So many tools I used were fragile and buggy, it was clear the authors just presented the happy path to management to get the note added to their promotion packet and the rest of the company just had to deal with the fallout.
My team implemented this product that the entire company used that was broken and buggy as hell but they kept presenting the product to management as this amazing product and nothing was ever done about how broken it was. One of my team members came from Apple and said Apple's tool to do the same thing was much better. The tool my team worked on was a well known pain point amongst the rank and file but management was very detached from the rank and file, which I guess ultimately was the primary problem.
If Github is having the same issues I feel for them.
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#105Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#106I had tried downloading release assets of two different OSS that I use, and all requests failed.
It was before it became a news and a trend in X.
Really frustrating experience.
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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#108As I said 6 years ago. [0] You would be better off self-hosting than using GitHub or GitHub actions. No CEO of GitHub exists and now it is falling over again.
There is no better time to self-host.
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
To offer a data point (not a tribalist argument): GitHub Actions being down this often is still less expensive than the cost of switching everything somewhere else. Would rather have my team walk away from the PRs and do other tasks than have engineering effort, meetings, design pages, scheduling, etc. for switching over. This is annoying and I'm here because it's down. But it would have to be far worse to come close…
A case study in vendor lock-in.
Pretty much, eh?
If I could right now:
1. go sign-up elsewhere 2. Log into GitHub and point Actions to that new host 3. All my actions files immediately worked without question
I'd probably give it a spin and make a wiki page explaining how to swap back and forth. No meetings. No design issues. No scheduling. Just a flip switch on who to pay for computers.
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#110Given 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.
Our deployments are triggered by GitHub Actions, and it is a pain to deploy without it (specifically collecting the credentials and putting them into variables the shell will read).
This is multiple times this month that this has been a problem.
Has GitHub completed it's internal migration to Azure yet? Or is it still ongoing? None of our devs want to switch away from GH, but we will have to at this point.