They seem to be having an issue with release downloads (https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/212407).

Our CI is broken at the moment, unable to download tools used in various checks (gitleaks, etc).

Why dont companies host their own CI anyways.. Its really not that complicated. I see companies spending 20k a month on github actions.. It makes no sense to me.

We migrated to GitLab a while back, and run Buildkite for CI.

Our public mirrors for open source stuff that results in built binaries that we ship is built on GitHub Actions from the public GitHub mirror so we have build attestation from the source.

Sometimes you're just dependent on things.

The opportunity cost is higher.

Its more work, you get the blame if it goes wrong, and its not your money.

Release download speeds felt particularly slow over the last week on my setup for whatever reason.

Buildkite with self hosted runners

Which is 4x the price of github, _plus_ the cost of the runners on top of it.

It's a great service though

Ory stack has been working very well for us.

> What's the confusion here?

Acknowledging that developers are in fact customers, is often where it comes undone in my experience.

In a lot of places, only revenue paying people are considered customers, everyone else is a cost centre.

Dev tools are often seen as a tax the business pays to be able to generate revenue. Investing in them, or treating them like the production level systems they are, isn’t intuitive for most, and for some a hard cost to justify.