I've been shocked by the costs of cloud compute for CI. I've seen hundreds of VMs used by dozens of engineers at peak.<p>Are others seeing this in software companies? Or have I seen particularly expensive CI systems?
It is definitely a high-spend area. It is not uncommon for teams that are <50 people to spend ~$2-5000/month on CI, sometimes more.<p>There are repos we've seen that are heavily sharded for testing and trigger ~50-200 separate jobs per commit, each taking a few minutes to run.<p>CI costs are only going to increase with each engineer putting out 10x code and autogenerated tests in the next few years.<p>aside: we're tackling this problem as a company. I've been considering putting out an analysis of this data from our customer set - your post might just trigger me to do it.