GitHub Actions was down yet again
Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test
GitHub Actions stumbled again on Wednesday, days after the code host renewed its promises to improve reliability.
Wednesday’s problem, as has so often been the case, hit Actions, GitHub’s CI/CD platform for automating software builds, tests, and deployments. According to the incident report GitHub put out for the disruption, things started going south at 1511 UTC.
The source code host identified an issue with a database primary and failed over to a replica, but said the move "did not fully mitigate" the degradation. GitHub then throttled inbound traffic while investigating upstream Vitess issues before gradually restoring traffic. By 1800 UTC, it said Actions was operating as expected and inbound queues had recovered.
The latest disruption isn’t particularly reassuring given that GitHub claimedlast week that it’s now serving double the commits it was dealing with in April, which wasn’t exactly...
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