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> the current culture regarding builds and CI in general is horrifyingly ineffficient I used to be in charge of the website for a company you’ve heard of. We o
by draw_down 6y ago
> the current culture regarding builds and CI in general is horrifyingly ineffficient
I used to be in charge of the website for a company you’ve heard of. We once realized some huge proportion of our traffic originated from a hosted CI company requesting the site thousands and thousands of times (guessing one for each build they hosted) every 5 minutes.
I can’t remember what proportion of traffic it was but I’m pretty sure it was a majority, maybe even more than 80%.
- userbinator 6y agoI sure hope the "cloud first" advocates are happy now, because they have managed to create masses of developers who have next to no idea that what they're doing is an incredible waste of resources. These are also the same people who are perplexed why their systems intermittently fail, or are surprised that they do when the Internet connection cuts out for a bit.
- draw_down 6y agoWe just emailed them and asked them to stop. Which they did, and they apologized, but maybe they just changed it to google.com or something which wouldn’t be any less wasteful.