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Re: Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integra... by danpalmer on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:14PM (#17603604)
Why? I'd have thought CI is a place where per-second billing would be an advantage? A CI job is likely to take somewhere between 1 and 15 minutes, per second billing could be a significant saving for many users.
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Re: Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integra... by ImJasonH on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @03:20PM (#17604125)
GCB prices are described in terms of dollars-per-minute, but are actually calculated per-second.

The price is actually $0.00005/second. :)

disclosure: I'm an engineer on the GCB team

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Re: Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integra... by dkuebric on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:20PM (#17603671)
Sure that would be great, but the state of the art is actually worse. Some providers charge by concurrency limit, which means you're always paying for peak capacity.
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Re: Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integra... by LyndsySimon on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @03:12PM (#17604064)
Oh really?

I never really considered that. Perhaps it'd be profitable to actually use that capacity for something when it's idle...

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