Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience

Re:Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience by jstimpfle on Monday January 09, 2017 @03:28PM (#13359492)

Question: What must go wrong for a build to be 180x slower on a server than on a laptop?

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Re:Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience by contingencies on Monday January 09, 2017 @09:52PM (#13362150)

Maybes: Packaging latency in archive formats (compress before upload, decompress after). Network latency on the upload/download. Block IO performance on the server. Virtualization overhead. Memory or processor constraints. Assumption of equivalence is spurious (eg. server is doing multi-architecture builds and full suites of tests including eg. regression tests). Yep, something like that.

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Re:Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience by cs02rm0 on Friday January 13, 2017 @06:35PM (#13395748)

Using an EC2 t2.nano instance for a build server.

When they're out of CPU credits it's game over.

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Re:Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience by monocasa on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @01:59PM (#13367782)

Overcommit of resources, causing near constant thrashing to disk.

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