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 9 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).