Comment by classictraffic
3 hours ago
> Moving our workloads off GitHub Actions to third-party runners with faster CPUs, higher-performance storage, and better cache infrastructure gave us faster machines to run the same pipeline on
Yeah, was not surprised to read this. Actions is convenient if you already use GitHub, but it can also be pretty slow. Given reliability is also a major issue with GitHub these days I expect to see more orgs moving to different pipelines
I wonder how much faster GitHub actions could be if they weren’t running on Azure. Because Azure is either slow or very expensive.
I think its actually because GitHub isn't solely running on Azure. They are currently using a mix of on prem, AWS, and Azure. The Azure migration has been a challenge with Azure running into capacity issues due to AI load.
We switched our Actions workload to blacksmith.sh (not affiliated) and have been pretty happy with how fast and inexpensive they are. I wouldn't be surprised to see this trend continue.