alt Hacker NewsAm I right in assuming it’s not the amount of payment but the transition from $0 to paying a bill at all?
I’m definitely sure it’s saving me more than $140 a month to have CI/CD running and I’m also sure I’d never break even on the opportunity cost of having someone write or set one up internally if someone else’s works - and this is the key - just as well.
But investment in CI/CD is investing in future velocity. The hours invested are paid for by hours saved. So if the outcome is brittle and requires oversight that savings drops or disappears.
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This is not investment in CI/CD. I already did that, by buying and investing in my own hardware, my own workflows, my own caching solution.
This is like if Dropbox started charging you money for the files you have stored on your backup hard drives.
You're sounding a lot like a Microsoft damage control artist.
Have you ever set up GitHub Actions? The outcome is brittle because of their platform, not because of my inability to do CI.