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It’s always funny to see blog posts that talk about CI, ephemeral environments, containers, Bazel as the solution to CI. This blog post matches my experience o
by maccard 2y ago
It’s always funny to see blog posts that talk about CI, ephemeral environments, containers, Bazel as the solution to CI.
This blog post matches my experience of running a CI system (but at a smaller scale). It’s messy, and throwing more resources and money at the problem often shows significantly diminishing returns for massive cost spends.
I’d love to someday try and fix this problem for other companies.
- nijave 2y agoYeah, I think it's not just limited to CI. I think flakey/slow/expensive CI is also an orange/red flag you're lacking in developer experience/productivity. When it gets too bad, it starts once incentivizing even worse practices like skipping/disabling parts of the test suite or multi tasking/context switching waiting on things to complete