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Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Post by hnlmorg »

jaapz wrote: post #62
drcongo wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

All these monitoring rules are of the format "when 500 errors > baseline for x minutes". Otherwise you'd have monitoring alerts every second. So it is normal for users to already see errors before github officially counts it as an outage.

You'd expect them to be monitoring more than just the HTTP response codes from user requests for precisely this reason.

If the first they hear of an outage is when user requests start to fail, then that's a failure in their monitoring as well.

But effective monitoring is harder than people assume.

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Post by mattbrewsbytes »

devil1432 wrote: post #149

I wonder if these github failures are just systematic incompetence or MS cutting budget on purpose to promote its own cicd tools

Or possibly an elevated number of AI Slop Cannons aiming their LLM generated hallucinations at github hosted repos?

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Post by skinfaxi »

pistoriusp wrote: post #41

Whilst you're waiting for it to come back, try out AGENT-CI (which is a project I built.), which runs GitHub Actions on your machine: https://agent-ci.dev . (Open source, etc.) No, it's not like "act," because it uses the standard Github runner, the difference is that the control plane is an emulation of api.github.com, because of this we can do all kinds of nice things: Caching in ~0 ms. Pause on failure, so you can…

You're affiliated with the project. You should definitely be upfront about that when shilling.

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Post by lazystone »

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #74
sofixa wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depending on how many thousands of $ per year, it would probably be cheaper and more reliable to self-host GitLab. It's better in terms of organisational structure (you can have one, including access and secret inheritance), and (personal view) Gitlab-CI is better than GitHub Actions because it doesn't push you towards a JavaScript/NPM style dependency hell. And it's actually fairly easy to self-hosted, with options…

Sounds good until you see their cvedetails page

Hide it behind VPN, so it's not accessible from outside.

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Post by dvduval »

a10c wrote: post #19

My 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.

Yes, Thais can be be really frustrating when you’re trying to get work done. There needs to be more competition and better alternatives and the LLMs need to offer easier connection to these alternatives.

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Post by a1o »

kylegalbraith wrote: post #52
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.

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. [0] https://depot.dev

Is there a tier for open source organizations? Do I have to admin any of AWS that runs behind the scenes or can I pay a fixed price to depot and get it to solve everything out of my way?

I used to use Cirrus CI as an alternative to GitHub Actions and am looking for a new alternative. I wonder if Depot could fit in the same way for my needs. I need to run builds and tests in Windows, Linux and macOS.

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