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Re:AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours t... by speedgoose on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:45PM (#49793146)
I wonder how much faster GitHub actions could be if they weren’t running on Azure. Because Azure is either slow or very expensive.
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Re:AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours t... by chris_money202 on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:01PM (#49794035)
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.
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Re:AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours t... by stackskipton on Monday September 21, 2026 @10:10PM (#49795997)
It's not Azure as much as self-hosted runners are basement bin servers on clearly massively oversubscribed machines.
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Re:AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours t... by rtpg on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:01AM (#49796970)
to be fair all CI providers I've had the pleasure of working with have gnarly performance profiles for the boxes they provide.

I don't think it's out of malice, but I do feel uncomfortable with the fact that the people who sell me the CI coordination software also sell me the minutes for the boxes that run the CI software. There's _some_ alignment of interests but not as much as I would want!

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