throwaway271723

Re:Ask HN: Team spends all our time fixing CI on Friday February 04, 2022 @03:49AM (#30204363)

Learn not to kick a man when he’s already down?

Re:Ask HN: Team spends all our time fixing CI on Friday February 04, 2022 @03:46AM (#30204348)

It’s not that simple, the flakiness is from the internal services we’ve been mandated to use as part of the build process

Re:Ask HN: Team spends all our time fixing CI on Friday February 04, 2022 @03:32AM (#30204264)

> Do you care too much about productivity as a individual contributor?

This, I hate that we spend so much time on build related stuff. The rogue employee has backup from one of the managers and has spent the last 3 months “upgrading” our pipelines to a new platform (his preferred tool). Things were quite stable before this change now we can’t get much done due to fighting the fall out from the changes

Re:Ask HN: Team spends all our time fixing CI on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:38PM (#30199274)

We do but many of the build problems are flaky in nature, eg timeouts

Ask HN: Team spends all our time fixing CI

Posted by throwaway271723 on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:24PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I work at a large tech company, I’ve been on the team a few years. We’re building a Kubernetes based service and spend an incredible amount of time on CI related issues. One team member in particular is constantly making tweaks to the pipeline, pushing for improvements and talking about it constantly. The build is broken most of the time. I feel pretty dejected as we don’t seem to deliver much...

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