alt Hacker NewsCI has always been expensive for Bun including before the acquisition. We build for [macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Android, Windows] x [ARM64, x64] and then run tests on multiple Linux distros with multiple shards, multiple macOS versions and Windows for each architecture.
We recently started cross-compiling all the builds on Linux arm64 and that made it a little faster (I wrote a CLI tool to download the correct macOS headers for cross-compilation). We also have a daily cron job that asks claude to make the slowest tests faster while adding more assertions.
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jojobas • yesterday at 10:44 PM
So are the "$800k + CI" estimates accurate? And your team works weekends just to make tests faster?
JustSkyfall • yesterday at 3:57 PM
How come Bun uses Buildkite instead of self-hosting the CI infra?
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I think the question for CI costs is still out there. While I do not think it should be in tunes of thousands a day but thats the skepticism presented in the article. True costs are really important to make a good decision in situations like this. One has to consider the fact that lots of people are going to use these numbers to justify the rewrite in future.