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It also allowed us (a small startup) to run huge test suites, on cheap dedicated hardware from Hetzner, without sacrificing the developer experience. It was th
by kawsper 1y ago
It also allowed us (a small startup) to run huge test suites, on cheap dedicated hardware from Hetzner, without sacrificing the developer experience.
It was the bill I was the happiest to pay.
We used Knapsack Pro to efficiently parallelise our Ruby test suite.
Today, I still use Buildkite, but now I build golden images (with packer) and deploy them with terraform.
- sj26 1y agoTurning our snowflake infrastructure into an autoscaling fleet via a packer + terraform pipeline was one of my first projects at Buildkite back in 2016: https://buildkite.com/resources/blog/terraform-techniques-with-buildkite/ https://buildkite.com/resources/blog/terraform-techniques-wi... We still have this pipeline with terraform, but have moved from building packer images for ec2 to building containers for ecs.