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I’ve always been annoyed with the sequential character of jobs in GitHub Actions – that it is impossible to run steps in parallel, when applicable, without moving the job’s logic away from the the .yaml constructs into, say, bash scripts. My ideal runtime for a CI workflow should in my view leverage the model of a DAG and the parallelism made plausible by that to the fullest. Depot CI seems to have addressed this quite well – https://depot.dev/docs/ci/how-to-guides/parallel-steps. I migrated a side project to use it now, and it’s working great – I am seeing some great speed-ups.

How does this use github syntax? Is it via https://github.com/nektos/act or something similar?

I have skimmed through the article but I am unsure of how it is a faster CI.

Also perhaps Depot should at this point have their own git provider too (maybe a partnership with gitea/forejo/similar folks?) to become an all in one github alternative too at this point for some customers too :-)

I feel like Depot can be interesting for some private repositories github actions