@heyblake Brutal roasting of legacy solutions
founders who are too polite to call out trash industry standards get buried. calling out bloated enterprise software or legacy tools is teh fastest way to get real devs to pay attention to your product...
Yesterday was a good reminder:
Even the smartest systems in the world can go down.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all had issues around the same time.
The lesson for engineering teams:
Every critical dependency needs a fallback.
Whether it's AI APIs, cloud providers, databases, or your CI pipeline.
Reliability isn't about never failing.
It's about failing without stopping everyone.
Build systems that keep shipping.
31% of developers say long build times are one of their biggest day-to-day frustrations.
We can’t fix every problem on this chart.
But slow CI? We’re pretty damn good at fixing that.
Up to 10x faster CI builds.
Don’t take our word for it. Run your own workflows on Monk CI and see for yourself.
https://t.co/68tzvAqcEC
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Since Nov 2025, you can pay to raise the limit (up to 10TB on user-owned repos). That fixes the thrash not the per-arch explosion, upload rate limit, or branch scoping. You've turned a correctness problem into a line item that grows with every stage you add. (7/7)
#DevOps #GithubActions #Docker #CICD #DevSecOps #CloudNative #SoftwareEngineering #Kubernetes
Your GitHub Actions Docker builds still rebuild half their layers even with cache-from/cache-to wired up correctly?
Here's why, the 10GB Actions cache is now a metered bill, not a hard wall but that's not even the main issue. (1/7)
Two more limits: 200 cache uploads/min/repo (big matrix builds can trip this, writes start failing), and the Actions cache is only readable from the current branch, its base branch, and default branch. A branch cut from another feature branch starts totally cold. (6/7)