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Hey at least we can all expect lots of extra days off because "GitHub is down" once they're done with that migration!
by amarant 10mo ago
Hey at least we can all expect lots of extra days off because "GitHub is down" once they're done with that migration!
- phantasmish 10mo agoThey 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 10mo agomeh, 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.
- dijit 10mo 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).
- godelski 10mo 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.