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We've seen great results since switching from Circle to Buildkite, not the least of which is cost, but you have to be willing to do a little bit of your own IT
by jmchuster 7y ago
We've seen great results since switching from Circle to Buildkite, not the least of which is cost, but you have to be willing to do a little bit of your own IT work.
- sylvinus 7y agoI second Buildkite, one of the best choices we made at my previous company.
- sundvor 7y agoBuildkite is awesome. Thirded. Love the clear UI, yaml based dynamic pipelines and ease of integration. Coupled with Terraform for us.
- beilabs 7y agoAnother happy Buildkite customer here. Beautiful UI and it just works really well.
- DuskStar 7y agoBuildkite + preemptible GCP instances has worked great for where I'm working right now!
- devocris 7y agoBut isn't that the point of Circle...not having to do any IT work? At some point the cost of Circle becomes negligible, especially when you consider how much your time is worth...and that you don't have to do any maintenance.
- jmchuster 7y agoYes, if you are completely allergic to IT work, then your options are more limited. In terms of time, I would say the initial setup cost us a day or two, but after that our EC2 build box has just been fire and forget. edit: I'll also add that in terms of time, I feel like most of the time in build pipelines is actually spent in tweaking, adding, and modifying the build configs, as opposed to the servers themselves (and you might also value developer time differently from devops time). I have found Buildkite easier to work with than CircleCI in this regard, and thus saved much more time overall.