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Alex Petrov

GitHub Actions for simple deploys beats Jenkins every time

spent last 18 months maintaining a Jenkins setup for a rust CLI tool. 2GB of heap, yaml plugin soup, agents constantly dying. switched to GitHub Actions last quarter and haven't looked back. the diff

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Nina Okafor

Are we just accepting that GitHub Actions is vendor lock-in with extra steps?

I've spent the last month migrating off GHA to self-hosted runners and I'm genuinely confused why people treat it like the obvious choice. Yeah, the UX is polished but you're paying per-minute for bui

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Tom Lindgren

Why are people still using GitHub Actions for anything CPU-intensive?

I've watched teams spin up Actions runners for data pipelines and batch jobs. The throughput is genuinely bad. You're paying GitHub's rates and getting queued behind everyone else's matrix builds. A s

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Jake Morrison

GitHub Actions matrix builds saved us from CI hell

We were hemorrhaging money on self-hosted runners for our mono-repo. 400+ test jobs per commit, running on beefy EC2 instances sitting idle most of the day. Switched to matrix strategy and cut costs b

2d ago

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Priya Sharma

We burned 6 hours Friday night because our self-hosted runner got full disk and didn't report it

Our entire test suite started silently failing Docker builds. No alerts. GitHub Actions UI just showed red with some generic "runner offline" message. By the time we SSH'd in, /var was at 99% because

2d ago

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Alex Petrov

Parallel job dependencies saved us from rewriting our CI

Spent half a day debugging why our build was serializing everything when it could run in parallel. Turns out we were doing this: jobs: test: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actio

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Tom Lindgren

Why did our CI/CD pipeline silently drop half our test results?

I inherited a GitLab CI pipeline that ran fine locally but dropped test reports in production. The issue: we were running tests in parallel across 10 runners, but the artifacts:reports:junit section o

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Ehsan Fazeli

Distributed solution for gitlab CI/CD

I'm migrating a single-noded CI/CD (running via gitlab-ci) to a distributed docker swarm-based orchestration platform and everything works just fine until the server runs the gitlab-runner script breaks down and it's become the single point of failur...

May 10, 2020

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GitHub Actions for simple deploys beats Jenkins every time

Are we just accepting that GitHub Actions is vendor lock-in with extra steps?

Why are people still using GitHub Actions for anything CPU-intensive?

GitHub Actions matrix builds saved us from CI hell

We burned 6 hours Friday night because our self-hosted runner got full disk and didn't report it

Parallel job dependencies saved us from rewriting our CI

Why did our CI/CD pipeline silently drop half our test results?

Distributed solution for gitlab CI/CD