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Some of our builds are running on CircleCI but have been trying out drone for a more container focused build. Been enjoying the flexibility and increased speed from custom build images which are trivial to make.
CircleCi 2.0 left beta last week and is fully docker based
Is this the only big success story for Clojure or other companies using the Lisp family of programming languages? I know there is Paul Graham's Viaweb. [1] Does anyone know of other examples? I like the fact that they are a practical company, using Go when needed where "static dependency compilation and fast start-up are more important". I wonder if the ClojureScript's annoucement on integration of NodeJS modules [2]…
Is this the only big success story for Clojure or other companies using the Lisp family of programming languages? I know there is Paul Graham's Viaweb. [1] Does anyone know of other examples? I like the fact that they are a practical company, using Go when needed where "static dependency compilation and fast start-up are more important". I wonder if the ClojureScript's annoucement on integration of NodeJS modules [2]…
Yeah, I also found it interesting. Curious what's their hiring pipeline for Clojure devs? I know a couple of startups that picked Clojure ended up having troubles finding good devs.
Is this the only big success story for Clojure or other companies using the Lisp family of programming languages? I know there is Paul Graham's Viaweb. [1] Does anyone know of other examples? I like the fact that they are a practical company, using Go when needed where "static dependency compilation and fast start-up are more important". I wonder if the ClojureScript's annoucement on integration of NodeJS modules [2]…
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> Our tests ran almost as fast as they do on a MacBook. This doesn't seem like glowing praise to me? If I'm paying 50$ per month for a container, I want it to be faster than a laptop ...
macbook pro's are faster than any VM you can pay $50 a month for.
The fastest Macbook available right now has about the same CPU power, and comes with less RAM. So no, the Macbook isn't faster than what you could get, but it makes sense if rented CI infrastructure isn't faster for that price.
Some of our builds are running on CircleCI but have been trying out drone for a more container focused build. Been enjoying the flexibility and increased speed from custom build images which are trivial to make.
When you get it going it blows everything else away in value for money. We routinely have hundreds of containers on-the-go and as many concurrent builds as we need; this all runs on a large AWS spot instance at a cost of about $50 a month. Added bonus: our docker cache is always available.
Buildkite provide a CloudFormation stack, but we just opted to run the agents as containers via ECS to make the setup quicker and managing them easier.
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> This doesn't seem like glowing praise to me? If I'm paying 50$ per month for a container, I want it to be faster than a laptop... Maybe I am doing it wrong but do people create and destroy a container thingy every time they run a test? I agree with you though. I am no expert by any means I'd expect Circle CI to be faster than a Macbook at building things like Google Chrome from scratch . But if the macbook already…
Yes, CircleCI creates a Docker container for every run. In the CircleCI 2.0 config style it is more explicit about this behavior (one specifies the Docker image they want to use) while in the 1.0 API, the config was more inferred / implicit. It can get more complicated than this, but at minimum every build on CircleCI is creating and destroying at least one container to run the unit test suite. It can do this pretty…
I assume the disk is pretty much always the bottleneck? I mean even with system CTL, how much memory can a rest API flask web app take right?
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Yes, CircleCI creates a Docker container for every run. In the CircleCI 2.0 config style it is more explicit about this behavior (one specifies the Docker image they want to use) while in the 1.0 API, the config was more inferred / implicit. It can get more complicated than this, but at minimum every build on CircleCI is creating and destroying at least one container to run the unit test suite. It can do this pretty…
Sorry, I meant to ask about locally. I am still trying to figure out how to write code in docker. It is very confusing and send like too much work to do this locally. I assume the disk is pretty much always the bottleneck? I mean even with system CTL, how much memory can a rest API flask web app take right?
That said, you don't have to use Docker and for a small project with no dependencies or no system level dependencies, I think it's overkill personally, so I'd just test outside of Docker or use the new base images from Circle.
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Yeah, I also found it interesting. Curious what's their hiring pipeline for Clojure devs? I know a couple of startups that picked Clojure ended up having troubles finding good devs.
Well, I found it found it hard to hire Clojure developers too. But I addressed it by hiring good to competent developers, asking if they are willing to learn Clojure and then getting them to implement a test project in Clojure as part of the interview process. Since Clojure is syntactically not huge, it is easy to pickup, for good developers. That's my hiring pipeline. ;)
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macbook pro's are faster than any VM you can pay $50 a month for.
~50$ a month buys you a dedicated server with a Quadcore Skylake (i7-6700). The fastest Macbook available right now has about the same CPU power, and comes with less RAM. So no, the Macbook isn't faster than what you could get, but it makes sense if rented CI infrastructure isn't faster for that price.