GitHub Actions (and Blacksmith etc.) round every job UP to the nearest minute
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CI pro tip: GitHub Actions (and Blacksmith etc.) round every job UP to the nearest minute ... so a 10 second job still costs a full minute! If you’ve got a bunch of short jobs, you’re potentially better off combining them into one and parallelizing within
Posted by Daniel Lockyer (73.2k followers) 1 h ago · 115 likes · 5k views · view the original post on X. Kept by the Dev Radar as Testing & observability.
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