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Re:Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @10:07PM (#46297791)
I understand that orchestration,log storage, keeping software updated can cost money, which they seem to recover from charging for software. Hopefully there is support now included with self hosted runners being charged.
groupcache[https://github.com/golang/groupcache] has been around for some time now.
Re:Show HN: Sourcebot, an open-source Sourcegraph alternative on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:57PM (#41716494)
Another solid code search tool https://github.com/hound-search/hound.

Based on regexp

Re:Show HN: Pippy – Pipelines for GitHub Actions on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @06:49PM (#40991059)
Thanks for trying this out. The command line version is open source and completely free, its local only and interacts with Github only.

you can try it here https://github.com/nixmade/pippy

Re:Show HN: Pippy – Pipelines for GitHub Actions on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @03:20PM (#40989365)
I updated the site to include differentiators. Agree that most of it has already been offered by Github.
Re:Show HN: Pippy – Pipelines for GitHub Actions on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @03:18PM (#40989342)
Sorry about the site not being clear. Agree most of this is already offered by Github, I updated the site to have key differentiators

- Automatic rollback on monitoring failures

- Datadog monitoring, queries configured datadog monitors after the workflow execution upto 15mins (right now hard coded). Optionally rollback if monitors are in failed state. This is also achievable with having a Github Action workflow query datadog monitors and stop further stages.

Re:Show HN: Pippy – Pipelines for GitHub Actions on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @12:27PM (#40987583)
I have been made aware of deployments in Github https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/targeting-diff... which offers similar functionality, without external monitoring or Rollback. The advantage of Azure devops is integration with Azure identity, making setup of approvals, reviewers easier.

pippy makes it easy to setup pipeline from simple workflows using UI (which Azure devops is good at), while in Github you may need to create a parent workflow which comprises of these individual simple workflows.

Re:Show HN: Pippy – Pipelines for GitHub Actions on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @11:32AM (#40986971)
Github does offer deployments https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment which is similar in comparison, but i feel there are lot of steps to go through to get this working and creating pipeline for simple workflows makes it hard.

Azure pipelines offered this by setting up reviewers, approvals, but reading more about Github deployments, they might be similar.

Re:Show HN: Pippy – Pipelines for GitHub Actions on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @11:30AM (#40986948)
Thank you for the feedback. Agree that most of the features are offered as https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment, unfortunately i haven't played with it. Will improve the landing page to focus on the pieces different from what is offered by Github.

>but I always want to click on those feature boxes for more info

Sorry about that, will work on not using cards :( I do not have much design/UI experience, and the lack of it shows here.

Re:Show HN: Pippy – Pipelines for GitHub Actions on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @11:26AM (#40986906)
If you are referring to https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/targeting-diff..., unfortunately i haven't played with it, and agree that it does offer most of the features offered by the product. As you mentioned the differentiator is the automatic rollback and support for external monitoring (datadog as of now). Would love to learn more about how you are using Github actions so i can make the product better, if you can drop an email to hello @ nixmade.com

For Cloud API, my post have been a little confusing, was suggesting/hoping 3rd party services to integrate with open source orchestrator https://github.com/nixmade/orchestrator so they can have their own version of pippy (not Github Actions).

Show HN: Pippy – Pipelines for GitHub Actions

https://pippy.dev/

I am excited to share pippy, which allows users to create configurable pipelines using Github Actions. If you have used Azure pipelines, in summary, this would be Azure Pipelines meets Github Actions.Cloud version: https://app.pippy.dev/login (closed beta) I am also open sourcing command line version: https://github.com/nixmade/pippy.Key features:- Automatic Rollback- Datadog Monitoring-...

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Nice to see an open source implementation, i have been seeing many startups get into this space like https://www.retellai.com/, https://fixie.ai/ etc. They always end up needing speech-to-speech models (current approach seems speech-text-text-speech with multiple agents handling 1 listening + 1 speaking), excited to see how this plays with recently announced gpt-4o
Re:Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications (2023) on Sunday January 14, 2024 @12:06PM (#38992135)
Looks very similar to Service Fabric https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/servi.... I have heard it scale upto 2000 nodes and extensively used internally at microsoft.