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  • My take: it seems like systems should become smaller, more isolated, and contract-oriented.

    I have been a long time proponent of monoliths, but it seems like agents would be happier with smaller, more isolated services. The more isolated, the better. Contracts between the service components only. Then it can iterate internally as long as it satisfies the contract. If it needs to, it can version the contract and keep iterating.

    by CharlieDigital
  • I think to solve this problem properly, we have to stop treating "build" and "test" as separate buckets of work, to be designed and scaled separately. It's all CI. As soon as you try seriously scaling out tests, you will run into build bottlenecks. To truly scale CI you need a scheduler that understands your build, test environment, and all the glue in between, well enough to schedule it in a way that actually speeds things up. That is very difficult and not something that even the best build tools can do - yes, even Bazel. Bazel can run tests but it's not nearly as good at it than at building.
    by shykes
  • If you can pay the setup cost, Bazel will get you build times ~10s with a warm cache for even massive projects.
    by azkalam
  • My biggest takeaway (as a one man band 20 leagues below this spending time optimizing Gitlab free plan and self hosted runners): they did not worry about any of this until 100M ARR and more 1B valuation[0].

    [0] https://linear.app/now/sharing-growth-with-the-people-buildi...

    by frangonf
  • Good thing Linear has been finished for a long time doesn't need more features, so AI coding can go slow. Oh damn, it's busy becoming the next Jira :(
    by algesten
  • > Moving our workloads off GitHub Actions to third-party runners with faster CPUs, higher-performance storage, and better cache infrastructure gave us faster machines to run the same pipeline on

    Yeah, was not surprised to read this. Actions is convenient if you already use GitHub, but it can also be pretty slow. Given reliability is also a major issue with GitHub these days I expect to see more orgs moving to different pipelines

    by classictraffic
  • In my case it's not the CI that's the bottleneck. It's the human testing side. Does it work, sure. But does it actually do the thing we want (and more importantly) does it do it in a way our customers will understand and actually like?
    by aliclark
  • Here's my constant question:

    Everyone's going so fast that they keep hitting walls. Review, CI, product asking for things, whatever.

    Why have we not seen an improvements in products?

    While every post and thread feels like a 90's wall street office, the new android and iphone ship with fewer features than usual. No indie guys come up with a linux-sized alternative OS. Switch 2 remains unhacked. Windows takes 3 seconds to show the right click menu.

    Is everyone just running full speed in circles or something?

    by torben-friis

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