Deployment waiting for hours

recent: deployment Issue 1: this started yesterday, been more than 24 hours: deployments stuck on waiting (in the logs).

common: deployment Issue 2: "Incorrect string value: '\xE2' for column 'logs' at row 1"

Issue 2 is periodically resolved by simply retrying, ie, adding empty lines to the code and commit, so that it redeploys. Sometimes work, sometimes dont.

Yesterday, Issue 1 is also resolved periodically by new commits (same code), and within half to 1 hour of it being stuck on processing. Today, no luck.

TL;DR

Developers are experiencing long deployment times with projects stuck on "processing" in the logs for over 24 hours. There is also an intermittent issue with "Incorrect string value" in the logs that sometimes resolves by retrying with additional commits. The current solution for Issue 1 is to periodically try recommitting the same code to trigger deployment completion.

Issue 1