Semi-technical thoughts

I've recently discovered nice continuous integration and continuous deployment service – codeship.io . It's not just another hosted Jenkins and it has some very interesting features (like integration with major code hosting services and development tools). But I won't probably use it except maybe for some pet projects of mine with no active development. Here are my reasons why: Free plan is no good for even one project. 50 builds per month is not enough for anything: any project in active development usually needs several daily builds, even if not counting merges and feature branches. Commit early, commit often (and with CI it also means test often) is the usual approach of our days. Cheapest paid plan costs $50 per month. Yes, it has unlimited almost everything, but fifty bucks is small, but significant amount of money and small business (or non-profit project) can usually utilize them better. Setting up Jenkins, on the other hand, would cost you about $5/mo for host...