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Re:Run Gitlab pipelines 2x faster and 5x cheaper without cha... by polygot on Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:06PM (#38156673)
Very interesting, I wonder how they are doing it. The FAQ mentions that the CPU cores are shared.

My guesses:

- They are doing something like Netflix's internal spot market https://netflixtechblog.com/creating-your-own-ec2-spot-marke....

- Or, they reserve a bunch of super large burstable instances at a discount, then run many jobs on there each in a firecracker vm, then do some sort of quota/reservation per job to allow it to use some of the burstable credits when it needs to.

Re:Run Gitlab pipelines 2x faster and 5x cheaper without cha... by NikPuashkin on Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:09PM (#38156692)
None of the above :) We're fully independent and host everything ourselves.