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by vlovich123 1012 days ago
All flakiness I’ve observed in code I’ve written has been dominated by things like “this job isn’t getting enough cpu cycles and the test assertion is too aggressive in such a scenario” or “lack of CPU cycles is triggering a race condition” or “statistical test X isn’t written robustly”. Not sure how containers solve these problems. My point being that this tool solves some problems for some teams and maybe for a lot of teams that struggle with this problem, but hard problems remain and this isn’t a silver bullet for that. You can’t outsource stability of the project-specific test infrastructure which is where most of the cost lies these days I think.