Re:Earning the privilege to work on unoriginal problems
by theptip on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:56PM
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I view it more as a “% of resources” and “required number of nines uptime” kind of thing. If you’re a solo founder pre-PMF or even pre-customers, pausing feature work to build infra for 2 weeks is IMO often going to be excessive.
If you have a couple engineers and you spend one engineer for one sprint to get things running automated for the next quarters push, that could be a good spend.
The MVP of CI/CD is a few hours wiring up Gitlab/GH Actions. The MVP of e2e tests is more variable but a moving skeleton can be hours if no UI, days if including browser testing.
However what makes sense for a first pass is very context-dependent.
If you have a couple engineers and you spend one engineer for one sprint to get things running automated for the next quarters push, that could be a good spend.
The MVP of CI/CD is a few hours wiring up Gitlab/GH Actions. The MVP of e2e tests is more variable but a moving skeleton can be hours if no UI, days if including browser testing.
However what makes sense for a first pass is very context-dependent.