Continuous Integration (CI) facilitates the daily build and test-driven development practices that support high-performance Agile teams. But CI puts significant, and variable, demand on resources. If a team’s compute resources are fixed and demand for those resources increases as the team approaches a release (more tests are being introduced, more code requires build and integration) they can pay a significant penalty in terms of waiting time. (…)
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