5 posts tagged with “CI/CD Cost”
Reduce CI/CD costs by cutting waste, not speed. Why compute-first cuts backfire, the five waste categories to target, and why faster is usually cheaper.
GitHub Actions cost is the per-minute rate times your runner OS, against a monthly allowance, plus storage. The billing quirks, the multiplier, and the bigger half.
CI/CD cost per build is compute plus developer wait time. The formula, real numbers from 378 GitHub Actions runs, and why the invoice undercounts by 100×.
The real cost of flaky tests is compute reruns plus developer wait time. The maths on why every flake pays twice, what we observed, and where to start.
Developer wait time is the biggest CI cost your team never invoices. The taxonomy, a worked example, and why it beats compute by two orders of magnitude.