Building GitHub Actions in a weekend?
I always chuckle a little when AI maximalists make that claim. Conceptually it sounds simple, but Actions’ architecture is far from it. This small diagram is a high level illustration of the services, components and databases involved in
People who can simplify complicated concepts so that laymen can understand them, are not the same people as those who can only reason about simple concepts.
At the surface level the output might look identical, but that output was not fabricated by similar machines 😄
The
The usage we’re seeing is unprecedented, the scale is unprecedented, and the resource crunch is real and not just in engineering talent.
Insane amount of work is going towards stabilising and securing the platform. Actions for example isn’t only handling the growth of CI use,
OPINION: Over the past year or so, GitHub has received so much hate for reliability, security, and performance issues. We have often been critics ourselves. However it's important to remember that GitHub has graciously provided free version control, CI/CD, and issue tracking for
Rich people who were too stupid to code before are now superstars. And actually brilliant engineers are made to feel stupid and redundant. Meanwhile coding has been synthesized into beige gooey calorie dense bars made from cockroaches and engineers have to line up with a small
