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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.
This post makes no mention of the macOS part of the CircleCI infrastructure, which is one of the trickiest parts of infrastructure IMHO. Tricky because Apple's EULA prevents virtualizing on anything other than its hardware, never more than 4 VMs per host, and not for commercial purposes...
Overall we are happy with it. I don't think CircleCI 2.0 is available yet for iOS, though, so nothing new to discuss yet.
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Apple's policy on VMs feels so backwards and it really bothers me. Apple expect you to have dedicated hardware if you want to do CI? It makes Mac/iOS projects a real pain and that's not including how much hassle Xcode only functionality is to script.
Apple are a hardware company… they don't make money unless you buy their hardware.
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.
If you don't mind tinkering, I highly recommend Buildkite. They provide the management & cloud UI and you run the actual build agents on your own infrastructure. 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 $50 a month. Added bonus: our d…
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Well, I found it found it hard to hire Clojure developers too. But I addressed it by hiring good to competent developers, asking if they are willing to learn Clojure and then getting them to implement a test project in Clojure as part of the interview process. Since Clojure is syntactically not huge, it is easy to pickup, for good developers. That's my hiring pipeline. ;)
Out of interest, roughly what percentage of candidates agreed to take on the project?
CircleCI rocks. Our tests ran almost as fast as they do on a MacBook. And their pricing is great. Of course, that was after trying to get shippable to work.
> Our tests ran almost as fast as they do on a MacBook. This doesn't seem like glowing praise to me? If I'm paying 50$ per month for a container, I want it to be faster than a laptop ...
And I'm typically not sitting there waiting for them to finish. All I care about is that they eventually do and the code deploys. Just don't take forever.
I also understand that the company is going to be serving many other customers at the same time.
And, no, the first server is free. The second server is $50.
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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.
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.
If you don't mind tinkering, I highly recommend Buildkite. They provide the management & cloud UI and you run the actual build agents on your own infrastructure. 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 $50 a month. Added bonus: our d…
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> Our tests ran almost as fast as they do on a MacBook. This doesn't seem like glowing praise to me? If I'm paying 50$ per month for a container, I want it to be faster than a laptop ...
On shippable, the same tests took 100 times longer to complete, if they finished at all. And I'm typically not sitting there waiting for them to finish. All I care about is that they eventually do and the code deploys. Just don't take forever. I also understand that the company is going to be serving many other customers at the same time. And, no, the first server is free. The second server is $50. https://circleci.c…
- I'm not sure if you contacted us to improve build times but I'd love to jump on a call and discuss your experience. This is definitely not the typical feedback we get so would like to dig in deeper and improve our handling of your scenario. manisha@shippable.com
- the first build server on circleci is only free up to 1500 build mins per month.
This post makes no mention of the macOS part of the CircleCI infrastructure, which is one of the trickiest parts of infrastructure IMHO. Tricky because Apple's EULA prevents virtualizing on anything other than its hardware, never more than 4 VMs per host, and not for commercial purposes...
Not quite sure if I understand the question, but we've been using their iOS product for a couple years now and have appreciated their support. They upped their game last year with a key hire or two, although there were growing pains. Overall we are happy with it. I don't think CircleCI 2.0 is available yet for iOS, though, so nothing new to discuss yet.