[HN Gopher] Incident with Actions and Codespaces
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       Incident with Actions and Codespaces
        
       Author : saltymimir
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2022-10-05 13:48 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | javierluraschi wrote:
       | 10min troubleshoot time * 10K devs troubleshooting GitHub Actions
       | right now... there goes one year for comunal dev productivity.
        
         | lovehashbrowns wrote:
         | I spent a good 20 minutes trying to figure out why actions
         | weren't running for my PR. Almost lost my marbles until I saw
         | another PR in a different repo also not running actions and I
         | decided to check the GitHub status page. It feels like there
         | should be some sorta warning or alert on GitHub.com when
         | there's an outage of a component of the site.
        
         | sophacles wrote:
         | And yet, I doubt those 10K devs could collectively produces
         | something in that 10 mins that would come even close to me and
         | a random other person putting in 6 months.
         | 
         | This probably holds if the random person is actively working
         | against whatever the collective goal is.
        
         | reidjs wrote:
         | Balance that against the time saved by having GH actions
         | instead of managing your own Jenkins server or something and
         | it's pretty fair
        
       | lloydatkinson wrote:
       | I was using codespaces regularly for working on my site when I'm
       | travelling but it just stopped being able to serve http content
       | one day. I use gitpod mostly now and the speed difference is very
       | noticeable.
        
       | nathankleyn wrote:
       | Actions and Codespaces are listed as having "degraded
       | performance" now too - seeing a lot of action builds disappear
       | into the ether and never get added to the queue to run.
        
         | derpsteb wrote:
         | 5mins later: WAIT, YOU FORGOT ALL THESE 20 RUNS!!!!
        
           | codechecker4 wrote:
           | Yeah 20 or so runs. And I'm like: well they did say added to
           | the queue successfully.
        
       | crawsome wrote:
        
       | fasteddie31003 wrote:
       | I'm working on a proactive 3rd party downtime detection tool
       | called AwareOps. Here is some of the recent data from Github's
       | incidents
       | https://app.awareops.com/whatisdown/orgs/437dc8b8-2386-4ef5-... .
        
         | lloydatkinson wrote:
         | This is very cool! I had the same idea for a while - I
         | currently just run a .NET cli tool I wrote that reads the
         | various cloud RSS feeds and then goes and scrapes the linked
         | page because the RSS feeds deliberately don't include the
         | severity etc.
         | 
         | Are you looking for any collaborations or anything? Would be
         | interested in helping if you ever are
        
           | fasteddie31003 wrote:
           | I'd love to chat about the idea. ea@awareops.com
        
       | prettychill wrote:
       | It would be great if on the checks tab (or on PRs waiting for
       | checks) they put some notification about downtown / issues. Can't
       | imagine how much time was wasted trying to debug this from end
       | users.
        
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