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> but I don't think you get to be a half decent developer without being a reasonable sysadmin I think you've just described me. And I don't see the argument ag
by jstimpfle 10y ago
> but I don't think you get to be a half decent developer without being a reasonable sysadmin
I think you've just described me. And I don't see the argument against sysadmin.
> leaving $800/day contract developers waiting for builds that run in 20 seconds on their laptops take nearly an hour.
Sorry I just can't take you seriously.
- monocasa 10y agoHonestly, I've heard worse out of sysadmins in some places.
- jstimpfle 10y agoQuestion: What must go wrong for a build to be 180x slower on a server than on a laptop?
- cs02rm0 10y agoUsing an EC2 t2.nano instance for a build server. When they're out of CPU credits it's game over.
- contingencies 10y agoMaybes: Packaging latency in archive formats (compress before upload, decompress after). Network latency on the upload/download. Block IO performance on the server. Virtualization overhead. Memory or processor constraints. Assumption of equivalence is spurious (eg. server is doing multi-architecture builds and full suites of tests including eg. regression tests). Yep, something like that.
- monocasa 10y agoOvercommit of resources, causing near constant thrashing to disk.