I haven't met vercel. Hudson, buildbot, in house thing built from scratch for some reason - all bad associations here.
A CI / deployment pipeline that you can't run locally is absolutely a disaster. You end up building different code to prod, in different fashion, and generally hoping that bugfixes to the local one will be meaningful in the CI one.
Buildbot calling a top level makefile that does everything, fine. Some java thing that is configured through a web gui and thus can never be restarted if it ever disappears, not fine.
I love the idea of CI and loathe every instance I have ever used.
I agree with you, however modern services (like Vercel) solve those problems pretty well. They provide you with the CI you'd otherwise write by yourself.
A CI / deployment pipeline that you can't run locally is absolutely a disaster. You end up building different code to prod, in different fashion, and generally hoping that bugfixes to the local one will be meaningful in the CI one.
Buildbot calling a top level makefile that does everything, fine. Some java thing that is configured through a web gui and thus can never be restarted if it ever disappears, not fine.
I love the idea of CI and loathe every instance I have ever used.