On April 14th, Twitter user @Matt Greensmith posted a GitHub Actions bill of $127 million, and @GitHub asked what was going on.
GitHub Action is a CI\CD service launched by GitHub in 2018. The bill shows that Matt used about 16 billion Actions minutes in a month, which translates to more than 30,000 years. 30,000 years ago can be traced back to the Paleolithic Age, so it seems that $127 million is not too expensive (manually funny).
In fact, Actions' sky-high billing problem broke out on April 14, which should be a bug in GitHub Action's billing calculation. Some netizens speculated that the calculation unit of the database was accidentally changed, for example, "microseconds" was accidentally changed to "seconds"... Netizens began to make up jokes about this bug:
Some people have frequent nightmares, such as going back to school and forgetting to attend classes, or studying for final exams. And I developed some cloud services and got a $4 million bill.
It's your problem to owe GitHub $20,000. When you owe GitHub $120 million, it's GitHub's problem.
Afterwards, Matt launched the " GitHub Actions Billing Bug Top Score Challenge, Who Can Beat the 127 Million Bill?" However, it didn't take long for that record to be beaten by @Mark Graves ' $800 million bill.
