Shadonototra 4 years ago

scaling is a hard problem to solve, so props to them for doing it without too much issues, overall..

but damn, since the microsoft acquisition, they are having more issues more frequently

  • rurban 4 years ago

    Actions runs on Azure, actions were only possible with Microsoft.

    • ctvo 4 years ago

      Ah yes. No one else on the internet will rent you servers.

    • JMS2021 4 years ago

      Action Runners are basically NodeJS applications packaged self-contained. You can run Action Runners on a RPi if you want.

      GitHub.com (not GHE) use Action Runners deployed using K8S. This can be done anywhere that supports K8S.

      Obviously MS used their own server infra, but to imply GitHub Actions needs Azure is plain false.

      • aaomidi 4 years ago

        I mean more so in a way that they're eating that cost. Much harder to do when you're not making huge cash from another segment of your offerings.

      • rurban 4 years ago

        financially.

        it was created to make good free use of azure. before azure GitHub would not be able to afford a free ci infra. someone has to pay all those servers running for free.

  • K0nserv 4 years ago

    Product development has also accelerated since the acquisition. Lots of interesting stuff has been released since it

    • izietto 4 years ago

      Flops have been released too (Copilot I'm looking at you)

      • jitl 4 years ago

        Copilot is amazingly good. I find it particularly helpful for filling out enum unions or building other kinds of conceptually linked types that don’t have enough semantic linkage for existing autocomplete systems to figure out my intention.

      • matthewmacleod 4 years ago

        Simmer down, it hasn't even been _released_ yet.