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GitHub Actions is having a reliability problem that's been quietly frustrating developers since August. Scheduled workflows — the kind that run automatically on a set timer — have been arriving late or not running at all. For teams that depend on automated pipelines, that's not a minor inconvenience, it's a broken promise from one of the world's most widely used development platforms.
Shifting to infrastructure, a project called TidesDB is making the case for transactional caching — essentially treating your cache the way you'd treat a database, with proper transaction support. The idea is that caches fail silently in ways that corrupt application state, and wrapping cache operations in transactions could prevent a whole class of hard-to-diagnose bugs. It's a small idea with potentially large consequences for how engineers think about data consistency.
And in the European smartphone market, mobile operators are technically gaining share — but not for a reason they'd want to celebrate. Counterpoint Research found operator sales fell four percent in the second quarter compared to last year. The share gain only happened because every other sales channel shrank even faster. It's a market contracting across the board, and the budget end is shrinking fastest of all.
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