Posts tagged #ci on Dynamo Geeks: 5 posts from the community, most useful first.
small thing that worked: we added an estimated kWh line next to build time in our CI summary. nobody asked for it. two weeks later people were competing to make it smaller and our slowest test job lost 40% of its runtime.
We have 12 services now (dont ask how, it happened over three years and two reorgs). The e2e suite is slow and flaky because it needs everything up at once, and the integration bugs we do catch are mostly "service A renamed a field and service B found out in production". Ive been reading about consumer driven contracts with Pact. Has anyone rolled it out across a bunch of teams? Specifically: did teams actually keep…
Ive been the person who gets pinged when CI goes red for about six years now, first in a fintech and now in insurance. After a while you notice the flakes arent random. They come in the same handful of flavours. Heres my list, roughly in order of how often I see them. 1. Racing the UI The test clicks before the button is ready, or reads text before the request came back. The fix people reach for is a sleep. Dont. In…
