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Pricing CI toil in euros so it can compete for budget
A CI/CD toil analyser that prices the waste in euros.
Identifies six toil signals in CI history, manual re-runs, flaky recoveries, dispatches, queue stalls, failure triage and approval gates, assigns each an engineer-time cost at a loaded hourly rate, and prices wasted runner minutes separately. Every assumption is a CLI flag, because an audit is only as credible as its assumptions are defensible.
What is in it
- The problem — what goes unanswered without it, and who notices first.
- Why the obvious alternative falls short — stated plainly, including where it is the better choice.
- How it works — the method, not a feature list.
- Concrete use cases — with console output quoted from the repository, never reconstructed.
- The methodology behind any number it emits — every term shown, so the figure survives a question.
- What it deliberately does not do — the section most papers leave out.
Part of the Cost & FinOps theme.
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