| ▲ | wnevets 21 hours ago |
| > Their entire ecosystem is basically held up with duct tape and gets very little investment. That isn't gonna get better anytime soon. "GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development" [1] [1] https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a... |
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| ▲ | amarant 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Hey at least we can all expect lots of extra days off because "GitHub is down" once they're done with that migration! |
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| ▲ | phantasmish 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | They had working infra and a great case for keeping fairly "close to the metal". Complicated files-heavy workload that needs tons of clever caching to perform well, lots of writes, lots of non-HTTP TCP traffic. Retrofitting that into "cloud" bullshit is such a bad idea. | | |
| ▲ | theamk 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | meh, I dunno. Using bare-metal requires competent Unix admins, and Actions team is full of javascript clowns (see: decision to use dashes in environment variable; lack of any sort of shell quoting support in templates; keeping logs next to binaries in self-hosted runners). Perhaps they would be better off using infra someone else maintains. | | |
| ▲ | godelski 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > requires competent Unix admins
Who knows where a $3.7T company is ever going to find competent Unix admins... > Perhaps they would be better off using infra someone else maintains.
They're handing it from themselves to themselves. We're talking about Microsoft, not some startup. | |
| ▲ | dijit 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Using bare-metal requires competent Unix admins So does running VMs in a cloud provider. Except now we call them "DevOps" or "SRE" and pay them 1.5-2x. (as a former SRE myself, I'm not complaining). |
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| ▲ | gregoryl 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They barely maintain Azure pipeline tasks / actions as well. We had a critical outage because they deprecated Windows 2019 agents a month earlier than scheduled. MS support had the gall to both blame us for not migrating sooner, and refuse to escalate for 36 hours! |
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| ▲ | sebazzz 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Except actions/ai-task. Im sure that one will come. |
