It spawns ephemeral EC2/Azure instances, which is a lot cheaper than the GitHub actions runners we used before that.
We shard to a lot of machines for tests and I’d be worried about running out if we used dedicated servers.
BuildKite is fine but I wouldn’t be that surprised if we move off of BuildKite to a custom thing at some point. Months ago, we switched from CMake to a handrolled typescript build system and it made our builds faster and simpler.
We shard to a lot of machines for tests and I’d be worried about running out if we used dedicated servers.
BuildKite is fine but I wouldn’t be that surprised if we move off of BuildKite to a custom thing at some point. Months ago, we switched from CMake to a handrolled typescript build system and it made our builds faster and simpler.