Han Lee

CI is now #2 on my list of costs, right below tokens. Our GitHub Actions usage went from $341 in August to $3,096 in October, that's insane! Had a chat with @mattgapp about some options to save money without slowing everything to a halt! 1) AWS Spot + @RunsOnRunsOn TIL, Spot is discounted spare computing capacity from AWS. You can rent it cheaper, but AWS can reclaim it when it needs the capacity back. RunsOn connects GitHub Actions to runners in your own AWS account, so you don’t have to build all the plumbing yourself. Works even better if you have both GitHub and AWS credits! 2) Rent servers from cheaper providers like @OVHcloud or @Hetzner_Online. Run your own GitHub Actions runners there, or use @buildkite to manage the pipelines. More stuff to maintain, but worth looking at. 3) Use a managed runner provider like @usejog or @useblacksmith. Both are pitching cheaper and faster GitHub Actions runners. From my explorations, Blacksmith seems more focused on speed and caching, while Jog is really pushing on price. Both claim savings, so we’ll see what happens on our actual builds. Probably worth trying them on our actual builds rather than comparing landing-page numbers. We're going to see a lot more of these popping up! @boatdotdev is another interesting one on the VM/CI side. Will check them out!

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