<![CDATA[A colleague has had a lot of problems with our gitlab CI running too slowly.]]>A colleague has had a lot of problems with our gitlab CI running too slowly. I had him send a link over of a particularly bad instance where it takes 30 min to make the MR and then 30 more to release the changes when the pipeline runs on main...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/468fd95b-b938-4a7a-84d2-a5f5d8bc9c62/a-colleague-has-had-a-lot-of-problems-with-our-gitlab-ci-running-too-slowly.RSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 08:41:47 GMTThu, 16 Apr 2026 12:08:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to A colleague has had a lot of problems with our gitlab CI running too slowly. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:14:15 GMT]]>@rune I read this and thought "this is so much like a Rune post" and then I realized *it was* and you just have a new profile pic 😄

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/reynir/statuses/116415742291624895https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/reynir/statuses/116415742291624895Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:14:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A colleague has had a lot of problems with our gitlab CI running too slowly. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:11:52 GMT]]>this is genuinely SUCH A RECURRING pattern working in IT. People do shit that is bad and then they blame the infra when their bad shit is bad

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.sound-city.dk/users/rune/statuses/01KPB38WHF9J38TKRSTKSW2PY6https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.sound-city.dk/users/rune/statuses/01KPB38WHF9J38TKRSTKSW2PY6Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:11:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A colleague has had a lot of problems with our gitlab CI running too slowly. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:11:27 GMT]]>well, I found out they have 5 test suites and they run them one at a time inside a single job. So there's no concurrency to make up for all the waiting the tests do.. And they only run on a single CI runner because it's all one job.

So his "I have to wait 60 minutes to release one small change" complaint could easily be cut down to 1/3rd the time by changing his CI definitions and doing NOTHING to the underlying infrastructure

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.sound-city.dk/users/rune/statuses/01KPB3842V2VPP4C4FMANTG61Ehttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.sound-city.dk/users/rune/statuses/01KPB3842V2VPP4C4FMANTG61EThu, 16 Apr 2026 12:11:27 GMT