[timr]

For those of you looking for a hosted CI system, I highly, highly recommend CircleCI...we've been using it for continuous deployment, and it's been just about perfect. It's one of those tools that Just Works, and makes your life a little bit easier.

[arohner]

Thanks! It's great to hear people say nice things about my baby :-)

[malandrew]

How does it compare to the other hosted CI solutions for private repos out there?

[arohner]

Hi, founder of Circle here.

Our focus is on developer productivity. That means we try to make things fast, reliable and low overhead.

As far as differentiators, we're pretty fast. We can automatically parallelize your test suite across N VMs. We automatically inspect your source tree, and figure out how to run the tests, without configuration. It's not perfect, but a substantial percentage of customers get a working build on their first try.

We have some pretty cool features in the pipeline that haven't been in generally available products, we hope to blow peoples' minds with them when they're released :-)

Let me know if there's anything else I can answer.

[timr]

"As far as differentiators, we're pretty fast. We can automatically parallelize your test suite across N VMs. We automatically inspect your source tree, and figure out how to run the tests, without configuration. It's not perfect, but a substantial percentage of customers get a working build on their first try."

Yes, yes and YES.

I love that there's a comment in this thread that claims that CI systems have to be like Jenkins to be marketable. CircleCI was great precisely because it worked basically out of the box, and then the configuration to get it to do more complicated stuff (like, say, running migrations) was as easy as specifying a unix command.

I set up our CI system on CircleCI in an afternoon, and we haven't had to touch it since. That's pretty remarkable.

[niall_ohiggins]

Strider is designed to be extremely customizable. We have found that in the real world, CI tools are like code editors.

Organizations need to heavily extend and modify the tool for their own individual workflow and process.

For that reason we believe the best CI tools are Open Source (like Travis and Jenkins).

We are working on a hosted Strider offering where each customer will be able to customize their version independently of one another.

Strider's value proposition is extensibility and customization. It's the opposite of a "one size fits all" approach (Travis does an amazing job at that already).