Overcoming Performance Benchmarking Challenges in CI Environments
By
adriencaccia
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
The article discusses the challenges of implementing performance benchmarks in continuous integration (CI) environments, particularly due to issues like noisy neighbors in hosted CI runners. It emphasizes the importance of catching performance regressions early to avoid costly fixes and negative impacts on user experience. The piece also highlights CodSpeed Macro Runners as a solution to reduce variance and false positives in benchmarking.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledPerformance regressions are harder to catch and more expensive to fix the longer they go unnoticed.
Catching issues in production is too late: Once it's deployed, the damage (slowdown, cost, UX impact) is already done.
CodSpeed Macro Runners reduce variance and false positives, making continuous performance checks finally practical in your workflow.
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