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I used to work at CircleCI. It was often suggested to us that because of the usage-based pricing we were not incentivized to make builds faster. In reality the
by glenjamin 3y ago
I used to work at CircleCI. It was often suggested to us that because of the usage-based pricing we were not incentivized to make builds faster.
In reality the opposite was true - experience had shown us that every time builds got faster, people ran more builds (likely because faster feedback means more iterations).
- hinkley 3y agoJevon's Paradox. You're not imagining things. I can't always manage making things feel 'free' to my users in my dev tools but when you do, it changes the sorts of expectations you have on your coworkers. Look, it's basically free, you should just do it and stop making excuses.
- nerdponx 3y agoThis is how we use Snowflake. We treat storage as "cheap", so we are inefficient and use a lot of it. Using less would mean spending more compute time ($$) and more developer time ($$$), which isn't worth whatever pittance we would save on storage.
- verdverm 3y agoMy problem with Circle was the credit system. Why not show the price in an actual currency?
- benatkin 3y agoIndeed. I understood what he said but it just didn't seem to be the case with CI platforms I use. Especially GitLab and Travis CI which host(ed) a lot of open source projects for free.
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