Namespace

“Namespace is the best dev infrastructure tool I’ve used in years. We run everything from our CI to Oz, our cloud agent platform, on Namespace, and I could not recommend it enough.”

“It's a no brainer if you're using GitHub Actions. You can enable it with 1 or two lines of yaml.”

“Super reliable, I don't recall us ever having an issue that impacted us.”

“I did a demo for our full engineering team yesterday, and jaws were on the floor. I actually got asked what the catch was.”

“Namespace is an impressive team offering a great product; a year after initial contact we are happier than ever to have made the decision to use Namespace infrastructure.”

“If I made some changes and CI jobs got slower, being able to drill down and find that is really useful. On GitHub, that's very difficult to do.”

“Self-hosted works, but it costs a lot to maintain and keep up. If something breaks, how do you even know it broke? There’s a lot of setup there that I simply don’t have time for.”

“During a big release we’d tell people internally: now is not the time to open fix-typo pull requests. Please just work on your own fork, and you’re welcome to open it tomorrow. It’s not the end of the world, but it does add friction to the development process.”

“Even though Namespace saved us money, that wasn’t the point. What matters is that it’s reliable and fast. In the end, it’s more about the cost of time than the cost of money.”

“I often go to the Namespace dashboard to get a high-level overview of how all my jobs are doing and their runtimes, and then drill all the way down into the nitty-gritty: the logs, the CPU usage. That’s really well built.”

“Working with the Namespace team is very pleasant. It’s a solid product, the team is super responsive, and they’re clearly passionate about what they’re doing while asking a fair price for it.”

“SSH is a very handy way to debug a failing test. Sometimes you have a test that only fails on CI, and figuring that out with CI being a black box is tedious. Being able to go into a machine and run the specific test by hand, in those rare cases that it’s needed, is very nice.”

“Building your own servers and running your own data centers is so far beyond the expertise that I’d want my engineers to have an interest in. Outsourcing that to Namespace is a no-brainer.”

“Five minutes is the sweet spot where it’s kind of okay to wait for CI and not fully switch tasks to something else. Anything above that just becomes a drag waiting on CI.”

“Namespace is really nicely plug-and-play on top of GitHub Actions, but then it also extends it in a really sensible way. It’s a great extension that adds a lot of value on top of what GitHub offers.”