Why We’re Betting on Global Retakes
Flaky tests destroy trust in your pipeline. The Global Retake Offer gives every Sapior team the ability to re-run failed jobs across multiple geographies in parallel—turning transient failures into a solved problem.
The Fragile Edge of Reliability
No developer feels calm when a pipeline goes red after a one-character change. That sinking certainty—*it’s probably not my code*—turns into wasted time. According to the **2023 State of DevOps Report**, flaky tests account for up to **20% of CI pipeline failures**. And a recent survey by Testim found that **62% of developers** lose an hour or more every week chasing ghosts. Not debugging. Just re-running.
We’ve built Sapior to eliminate that fragility. Today, we’re betting big on a single feature: **the Global Retake Offer**.
The Cost of a False Negative
CI failures are signals. When those signals lie, they erode trust in the entire pipeline. Teams start ignoring failures. They merge through red builds. They normalize broken main branches. This isn't just an annoyance—it’s a **productivity tax** that scales with your team.
A transient environment hiccup, a network timeout, a slightly delayed container startup—any of these can cause a false negative. A simple retry in the same region often repeats the same conditions. **You need a different vantage point.**
> *“We realized that a single-region retry is like asking the same question to the same person who just gave you a wrong answer.”* — Sapior eng team
How Global Retakes Work
Instead of re-running a failed job in the same data center, Sapior **distributes the retake** across three geographic regions simultaneously. Your test, build, or lint step runs in parallel on fresh, isolated instances in `us-east-1`, `eu-west-2`, and `ap-southeast-1`.
**True signal**: Two out of three must agree. If all three fail, it’s your code. If only one region fails, it’s an environmental flake.
**Zero configuration**: No changes to your pipeline definition. Flip the toggle in your Sapior dashboard.
**Deterministic log aggregation**: Side-by-side logs from all regions, automatically differenced, so you spot the exact divergent line in seconds.
We borrowed this idea from how large-scale distributed databases perform quorum reads—**don’t trust a single node**. Your CI deserves the same rigour.
Real-World Impact
During our early access program, a 12-person backend team saw their flaky-test triage time drop from **14 hours per week to under 2 hours**. Their false-positive rate went from 8% to 0.4%. Not a small tweak—a fundamental shift in how they trust their pipeline.
The Global Retake Offer
Until the end of Q3 2024, **every Sapior plan includes unlimited global retakes at no extra cost**. We’re calling it an offer because we want you to experience a world where CI failures mean something.
1. Go to [app.sapior.com/retake](https://app.sapior.com/retake)
2. Activate the offer on your workspace
3. Your next pipeline failure will trigger a global retake automatically
No credit card gymnastics. No quota fiddling. It’s on us.
The Future of Deterministic CI
Global retakes aren’t a band aid. They’re a new primitive. We’re already working on **predictive retakes**—Sapior will learn your project’s flake patterns and pre-spawn retake capacity before a failure even occurs. Combined with our upcoming smart gating (which only allows deployments if all regions agree), we’re building towards **deterministic CI**.
For now, the Global Retake Offer is the simplest way to stop questioning your pipeline and start trusting it again. Sign up and let’s turn red into mean.
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*Learn more in [our docs](https://docs.sapior.com/global-retakes) or join the conversation on [Discord](https://discord.gg/sapior).*