Soon we can start posting "GitHub {x} is up!" instead, that's becoming more news-worthy lol. I know they like to blame AI/scaling, but really they are owned by one of the main hyperscalers, so I find that excuse kind of weak..
You don't think GitHub working on seven different interfaces to copilot and vibe coding PR page changes filled with bugs are a good use of engineering time?~
Can't wait for the Graphite/Cursor alternative (Origin) to become available. Actions being down for an hour in the middle of the US East workday is crazy. It's super frustrating to be an enterprise customer of Github, seems like we don't get any dedicated resources or additional stability. At this point our only option is self-host github enterprise or move away.
Someone needs to work on improving the way Actions deals with resource exhaustion like this. Today it exploded all the CI jobs with "failed" and an inscrutable message about "The job was not acquired by Runner of type hosted even after multiple attempts" then "Internal server error". It should say "Timed out due to no runner available, our apologies, try again later, or pay $$$ here to get priority for runners".
I love how even self hosted workers don't work during these outages - running jobs on their infrastructure being flakey is marginally acceptable, but the API to simply schedule workflows having this availability is mind boggling. Github just doesn't seem like a serious company anymore.
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You might as well self host like I said before [0].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406
Or has Microsoft made sure (through Windows licensing terms and pricing) that it's not possible to compete with their own CI offering?
Edit: CircleCI seems to offer 750 minutes/month (whereas GitHub offers 1000 minutes/month).
Also, doesn't even have RAG offering.