Blacksmith Blog

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42 matching posts

Title Author Published Words HN Pts
Building the CI cloud: our Series C Aditya Jayaprakash 2026-10-21 383 3
How Blacksmith runs >10M jobs per day Andrew Werner 2026-09-18 2,876 8
Does a coding agent need a face? Andrew Willis 2026-09-10 1,025 3
Code mode lost its first race. Then we gave it muscle memory Mark Hetherington 2026-08-24 1,319 1
US west region outage due to facility cooling loss on August 13, 2026 Shreyas Kalyan 2026-08-19 997 --
Announcing Blacksmith’s Series B led by Peak XV Partners Aditya Jayaprakash 2026-08-12 533 --
The physics of Docker build caching Piotr Bejda 2026-07-31 2,838 16
Why I joined Blacksmith to work on storage again Piotr Bejda 2026-07-24 3,676 16
Blacksmith outage on July 21, 2026 Bruce Yu 2026-07-22 1,038 --
What is your CI job talking to? Andrew Werner 2026-07-20 2,630 2
Closed-loop development: how we shipped Mac runners in 3 weeks Aditya Maru 2026-04-16 1,387 --
How Blacksmith survives ISP degradation with Tailscale Services Aditya Maru 2025-12-18 914 --
The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer free Aditya Jayaprakash 2025-12-16 597 216
The two faces of tomorrow Aditya Jayaprakash 2025-09-18 382 --
How we SSH into GitHub Actions Taha Saifuddin 2025-09-09 1,274 2
Reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache to make it fast Aaditya Sondhi 2025-07-23 1,463 154
How we built a logging platform for GitHub Actions with ClickHouse Paul Bardea 2025-07-02 1,250 3
Why we chose not to look like every other company in Silicon Valley Gabriel Guerra 2025-06-18 524 3
How the economics of multitenancy work Aditya Jayaprakash 2025-05-13 1,482 5
Blacksmith Raises $3.5M led by GV and Y Combinator to Build a High-Performance CI Cloud. Aditya Jayaprakash 2025-05-01 1,025 --
You have 5 days before the new DockerHub limits f*ck you over Aditya Maru 2025-03-26 977 9
Launch: GitHub Actions Analytics Aayush Shah 2025-02-25 560 --
Best Practices for Managing Secrets in GitHub Actions Aditya Jayaprakash 2025-01-15 1,984 --
How to reduce spend in GitHub Actions Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-12-17 2,107 --
Matrix Builds with GitHub Actions Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-11-14 3,271 --
Deployments still suck, but maybe they don’t have to Aayush Shah 2024-10-29 1,005 5
Docker Architecture: The components and processes - Part 2 Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-10-25 1,996 --
Building Multi-Platform Docker Images for ARM64 in GitHub Actions Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-09-25 1,041 --
Blacksmith achieves SOC 2 Type 2 compliance Aayush Shah 2024-09-19 483 --
Docker Architecture: The components and processes - Part 1 Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-09-16 3,860 --
Understanding Multi-Stage Docker Builds Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-09-12 1,957 --
A Guide to Disk Space Management with Docker: How to Clear Your Cache Aayush Shah 2024-09-09 979 --
Stacked Diffs can be expensive: Why you should do it more Aditya Maru 2024-08-30 1,373 4
How to optimize your Dockerfile for faster Docker builds Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-08-26 1,563 6
Faster Docker builds using a remote BuildKit instance Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-08-12 1,337 75
The exodus from GitHub Actions to Buildkite Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-05-28 1,122 8
Blacksmith is SOC2 Type 1 compliant Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-05-06 322 --
How to run Jest tests faster in GitHub Actions Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-04-29 977 --
What it was like going through YC W24 Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-04-22 1,535 8
Push, Cache, Repeat: Amazon ECR as a remote Docker cache for GitHub Actions Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-04-15 705 4
Cache is King: A guide for Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions Aditya Maru 2024-04-06 1,482 210
Protect prod, cut costs: concurrency in GitHub Actions Aditya Jayaprakash 2024-03-30 493 4