Re:GitHub Actions is experiencing degraded performance
by rowanseymour on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:13AM
(#26302907)
We're all in on Github actions these days but there was a time when we used to maintain our own Jenkins instance. I have spent less time waiting for the occasional Github problem to be resolved than I did trying to keep that thing working.
Re:GitHub Actions is experiencing degraded performance
by AdamJacobMuller on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:40PM
(#26311659)
I agree with Jenkins, but, Gitlab-CI is a joy to work with.
In most of the scenarios, if GitHub Actions is down for an hour, even a couple of times per year, the deployment of new functionalities may be delayed a bit but that's it.
If you average over the year, the productivity gain, simplicity, and price (100% free for public repos!) from using GitHub Actions is still worth it for most of the people.
There could have been many uncontrollable reasons for the flow of developers to be interrupted (meeting, lunch, questions from colleagues, a pet in the office, slow internet, traffic with the car, stuck in an elevator) or just big news-related distractions (Christmas, Gamestop stock, Roblox IPO).
Unless you have a company somewhat relying on GitHub Actions for critical / business-generating flow (this sounds like an unusual idea to me but ok), it's unlikely to impact the income of the company.