Comment by amarant

7 days ago

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  7 days ago

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  7 days ago

    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  7 days ago 

        > 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  7 days ago

      > 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).