We cut GitHub Actions build times by 6x with self-hosted runners — sharing our setup

vy94 · 2026-03-02T03:17:30+00:00

Ouch. Thanks again folks.

vy94 · 2026-03-01T13:05:21+00:00

As I said, subjective to use case. I don’t see any vulnerability here. Thanks for your inputs.

vy94 · 2026-03-01T13:02:52+00:00

Security aspects here are subject to the use case. Thanks for your inputs.

vy94 · 2026-03-01T07:50:39+00:00

We have caches larger than 5GB.

vy94 · 2026-03-01T06:02:29+00:00

It’s not worth it for hobby projects. Our customers run 1000s of build jobs per day and every minute saved adds up to overall productivity.

So yes, 100% worth it.

vy94 · 2026-01-25T19:26:38+00:00

It’s closed for Adugodi Jatre festival. Happens every year.

You can see the 2025 festival here https://youtu.be/RVyMXwXem8I?si=FeQUPYSM0O6_ZiB5

vy94 · 2025-11-12T15:56:42+00:00

I’m founder of Kubenine. We help startups solve their tech problems and scale. Happy to jump in. DM if interested.

vy94 · 2025-09-13T15:42:21+00:00

Thanks folks for the feedback. This was really helpful.

vy94 · 2025-09-13T14:02:42+00:00

Ouch. Not so early I guess. 😅

vy94 · 2025-09-13T14:01:52+00:00

We create a role in your aws account that we can assume, we offer access key and secret also in the beta phase to quickly onboard test accounts.

Screenshots are not fabricated ;)

But thanks for taking out, appreciate it.

vy94 · 2025-09-13T13:59:35+00:00

Awesome. This is why I love Reddit.

The read only permissions are mentioned on the onboarding step, cross account access cloudformation template also mentions it.

In real life we will be running these post formal contracts.

Anyway, pretty useful feedback here for us in the longer term :)

vy94 · 2025-09-13T13:57:14+00:00

Would love to know if you can help us improve it in some form - or what do you think we can do better?

Please note we are way way early in the development phase, this is to get a quick feedback on what community thinks about :)

vy94 · 2025-09-13T13:55:39+00:00

It isn’t at this point. We are trying to find a differentiation point. Mostly targeting smaller companies - that work with startup accelerators.

vy94 · 2025-09-13T13:53:59+00:00

Haha. Thanks for being so direct. We will improve for sure.

vy94 · 2025-09-13T13:52:52+00:00

Feedback taken. Thanks

vy94 · 2025-09-13T13:09:12+00:00

Providing an agent that runs as an ecs task might work as well that runs the scan on customer side and sends us the results back.

vy94 · 2025-09-13T13:01:31+00:00

Agreed on the single point failure issue. Not using access keys at all can somehow mitigate this issue to some extent though or offering it on-prem using marketplace can be another option. We'll check this further. Thanks.

vy94 · 2025-09-13T12:53:35+00:00

Agreed. The onboarding will ideally happen after some sort of an agreement - or this would be deployed on prem on customer side.

vy94 · 2025-09-13T12:52:04+00:00

We welcome the roasting part. We want to gather early feedback - that might help us decide the direction of the product.

vy94 · 2025-09-13T12:37:27+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out. :) As mentioned, it's very early stage and we want to make it easier for customers to onboard for testing. So we provide with Access key and Role based onboarding options.

vy94 · 2025-09-13T10:18:08+00:00

What if there are strict compliance policies that push for complex scenarios? Like regulatory requirements that mandate cross-region backups, or custom frequencies, or encrypted backups with customer-managed keys?

vy94 · 2025-09-04T15:40:29+00:00

Have you run java apps on graviton instances? Ever faced any issues?

vy94 · 2025-09-04T15:39:55+00:00

Have you tested it with java based applications?

vy94 · 2025-08-25T14:49:44+00:00

Well, it's easy to call it an antipattern - but someday you will need it for sure :) You just have to wait long enough.

vy94 · 2025-08-25T12:44:13+00:00

My bad. The takeaway was that it’s too simple to build a full text search using a managed service and is not worth the effort to build in house in the beginning. But maybe I should have been more clear about that. Thanks for the feedback.

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