SMRTR ProgrammingFeb 5, 2026lobste.rs

GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team

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A veteran engineer with extensive CI experience argues that GitHub Actions is fundamentally flawed despite its market dominance. The piece details frustrations with GitHub Actions' broken log viewer, complex YAML syntax, security concerns with marketplace actions, and poor performance, then advocates for Buildkite as a superior alternative that offers better tooling, self-hosted infrastructure, and developer experience.

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