Posts tagged cost
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The merge that passed every check and did not ship
One person and a handful of agents merged eighteen pull requests across five repositories in twenty-four hours, and the last merge never reached production: Vercel refused it on a Hobby limit of 100 deployments a day. The account had created 111. Half of them never built, and I still cannot tell what the meter counted. The limit is the easy part of the story.
GitHub doesn't bill time, it bills jobs
I seeded a private repo from this one and burned a monthly Actions quota in forty-eight hours. The pipeline had not changed; the repository had. The multiplier that did it is the same thing that makes the gate fast — twelve parallel jobs, each rounded up to a full minute, green in three and a half minutes of wall clock and billed for twelve.