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Worth being upfront with, I'm an employee, but; Buildkite. Frontier labs and global saas heavyweights run CI through us, plus a crop of open source tooling lik

by mitchjj 2mo ago

Worth being upfront with, I'm an employee, but; Buildkite. Frontier labs and global saas heavyweights run CI through us, plus a crop of open source tooling like Bazel, vLLM, Firecracker, Rails, Ray, Sorbet and Rust. Shopify, Uber, Airbnb, Canva stresstested the platform ten years ago for scaling issues. You need to take a little time to design upfront and take advantage of dynamically programmable primitives. It isn't the same ease/convenience as Actions. Bit more available though.

tom1337 2mo ago
How would I be able to run my CI via Buildkite when I still host in GitHub and their API is down? We are currently already using self-hosted runners and they also don't work because either they aren't started by GitHub or can't download the code.
- maccard 2mo ago
  We ran a mirror of our git repo on codecommit when things started to get really hairy, and pointed out CI to that instead of GitHub. It’s still a moving target though as we were using GitHub releases to publish to. We replaced that with an s3 bucket and mirrored _those_ to GH via actions, which had the added benefit of only failing when GitHub was down!
maccard 2mo ago
I want to second build kite - it’s an excellent piece of tech and is best described as “sane Jenkins” as a compliment. My only gripe is the pricing - it’s not designed for “small teams”. But I’d use it again in a heartbeat.
- mitchjj 2mo ago
  This week we've released a free plan and overhauled the mid-tier; am keen to hear whether this alleviates the 'small team' pain against others in market
  - maccard 2mo ago
    I’m not working for a small team anymore but I can say this would have gotten us to use Buildkite again. I think an in between tier would help, as it’s 4.5x the cost of GitHub per person, plus the cost of the runners. The idea of spending $42/mo on GitHub plus $180 on buuldkite is a hard sell, but the economics aren’t there.
    - mitchjj 2mo ago
      That's good feedback, there's been a lot of discussion internally about how pricing has affected sentiment and what the trade-offs were from previous decision makers there over the last couple of years. Without it seeming like lip service, there is a 'startup' plan in the works, to sit between free and pro, sounds like it may be the right move as this isn't the first time we've heard it.

by mitchjj 2mo ago

tom1337 2mo ago

How would I be able to run my CI via Buildkite when I still host in GitHub and their API is down? We are currently already using self-hosted runners and they also don't work because either they aren't started by GitHub or can't download the code.

maccard 2mo ago
We ran a mirror of our git repo on codecommit when things started to get really hairy, and pointed out CI to that instead of GitHub. It’s still a moving target though as we were using GitHub releases to publish to. We replaced that with an s3 bucket and mirrored _those_ to GH via actions, which had the added benefit of only failing when GitHub was down!

maccard 2mo ago

I want to second build kite - it’s an excellent piece of tech and is best described as “sane Jenkins” as a compliment. My only gripe is the pricing - it’s not designed for “small teams”. But I’d use it again in a heartbeat.

mitchjj 2mo ago
This week we've released a free plan and overhauled the mid-tier; am keen to hear whether this alleviates the 'small team' pain against others in market
- maccard 2mo ago
  I’m not working for a small team anymore but I can say this would have gotten us to use Buildkite again. I think an in between tier would help, as it’s 4.5x the cost of GitHub per person, plus the cost of the runners. The idea of spending $42/mo on GitHub plus $180 on buuldkite is a hard sell, but the economics aren’t there.
  - mitchjj 2mo ago
    That's good feedback, there's been a lot of discussion internally about how pricing has affected sentiment and what the trade-offs were from previous decision makers there over the last couple of years. Without it seeming like lip service, there is a 'startup' plan in the works, to sit between free and pro, sounds like it may be the right move as this isn't the first time we've heard it.