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Side note: what did happen to Travis? I was just googling them yesterday because they were everywhere. They even came with the GitHub education package. Did Gi
by preciousoo 4y ago
Side note: what did happen to Travis? I was just googling them yesterday because they were everywhere. They even came with the GitHub education package.
Did GitHub just eat them?
- tankerkiller 4y agoSeems based on some of my research that they've completely exited the free side of the business. All of their plans are now paid and the cheapest plan is $64/year
- jacobwg 4y agoTravis CI got acquired by Idera in 2019 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18978251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18978251) then a month later laid off senior engineer staff (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218036).
- preciousoo 4y agoDamn. They were my introduction to CI/CD. Such is life
- Xylakant 4y agoTravis was acquired a few years ago and things went downhill from there on.
- VWWHFSfQ 4y agoIt wasn't a good business to be in anyway. I don't think any of these freebie devops businesses are all that smart. They're not a "business", they're a feature of someone else's business. And as soon as they catch up then you're done.
- acdha 4y agoAlso they’re surprisingly expensive: things like spam and cryptocurrency mean that you need a fairly large abuse prevention team which is expensive but has no customer-visible benefits. GitHub has that too but as you said they at least have the rest of the business with which to recoup that cost.
- qbasic_forever 4y agoI suspect GitHub actions put a massive dent in their product usage. I seem to remember they started to cut costs and restrict free usage some years back too, and that was the beginning of the end.