Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more
Please disregard the following offtopic rant; I'm not sure if I'm just getting older and jaded or if Github (and the web at large, if I might be frank) is having these issues more often as of late.Is it that what we are doing is becoming more complex, or are we, as a web, moving faster and breaking more things? I wonder sometimes if the advancement and affordability of our hardware and the systems we can run on them has decreased our reliance on optimization and correctness as a requirement of deploying on affordable hardware. Basic functions used to have to be combined with great rigor to run on the same machine for swaths of users. Now we are so far from that we have 1000 layers of abstraction, and it isn't hard to imagine how lots of tiny inefficiencies stacked on top of each other may be adding up to bigger issues.In my org we have a term for this, where you're encumbered by faults deep in the toolchain - getting 'middlewared'.