| Heading to KubeCon, November 9-12? Find Blacksmith at booth 272.
Run GitHub Actions jobs up to 2x faster than GitHub-… |
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| On November 5, 2026, our security team detected and contained unauthorized access to the system that stores the console… |
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| You can't have fast CI with a concurrency cap.
So Blacksmith doesn't have one, and we go to great lengths to keep it th… |
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2026-11-04 |
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| To restore a cache, Blacksmith runners pull from many storage servers at once, and under load those bursts kept stallin… |
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| 30% less job time on some workloads, just from running in the right region.
→ We record what every job pulls: code, im… |
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| Turborepo caching is now on by default for free on Blacksmith.
400+ teams are already using it. One monorepo that runs… |
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| Large downloads from GitHub are now 22% faster on Blacksmith runners (p90: 54 → 65 MB/s).
We shipped a network optimi… |
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| Our CEO @adijayaprakash is live on @etnshow at 9:30am ET to talk about our Series C and what's next for code validation. |
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| RT @adijayaprakash: @sequoia is leading our Series C at a $1B valuation.
We started Blacksmith in 2024 to make CI fas… |
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| @sequoia is leading our Series C at a $1B valuation.
Since January, we’ve gone from running 5M CI jobs a week to over … |
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| Blacksmith now supports GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency.
Companies who… |
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| RT @richiemcilroy: It’s never been easier to ship code, but testing has still been a massive bottleneck for us… so I de… |
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| Blacksmith is in the Disruptors 60 Class of 2026, curated by @GreenfieldVC at @TechCrunch Disrupt.
Writing code isn’t … |
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2026-10-14 |
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| Go build caching is now enabled by default for every Blacksmith org, free of charge.
Across customer CI jobs, the medi… |
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| RT @alchemy_run: We were fortunate enough to have our CI accelerated and sponsored by @useblacksmith
Simply swapping t… |
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| Two days at @WeAreDevs talking about what happens when agents write more code than ever and CI becomes the bottleneck.
… |
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2026-09-30 |
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| RT @elenanisonoff: Imagine running agents on your boy’s hotspot at the Beford L grind sesh https://t.co/wAE8bS49EZ |
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| RT @ItsPatrickU: Most important part missing. Switch to @useblacksmith 🫡 |
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| We schedule more than 10 million CI jobs a day, and CI is one of the spikiest workloads that exists. When all your deve… |
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| RT @0xferruccio: been working on devex with an awesome team, we've seen incredible results by introducing:
- automatic… |
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| https://t.co/3Kc45CQOfq |
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| Anthropic reported 25x growth in CI job volume over six months.
For context, that lands above the 99th percentile in o… |
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2026-09-16 |
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| How do you know when a scheduling approach stops working as you scale?
We built simulations to find out, and used them… |
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| Before it became an anvil head, [code]smith almost ended up as a hammer with eyes, a literal blacksmith, or a clanker r… |
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| Container caching is now on by default for every Blacksmith org. And it’s free.
Every Docker-based CI job pulls the sa… |
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2026-09-10 |
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| Heading to LDX3 New York, September 15-16? Come find Blacksmith at booth 102 👋
Waiting on GitHub-hosted runners? Stil… |
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2026-09-09 |
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| Blacksmith now offers zero-configuration remote caching for Bazel.
We measured 31% faster p50s and 52% faster p90s acr… |
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2026-09-02 |
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| RT @useblacksmith: This is the Broadway-Lafayette station this morning.
We didn't just buy one ad, we bought the entir… |
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| This is the Broadway-Lafayette station this morning.
We didn't just buy one ad, we bought the entire station. We plast… |
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2026-09-01 |
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| 30-80% faster builds with a one-line YAML change. |
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| RT @vchennai2: Just had a @useblacksmith build run so fast I thought CI was broken
Good engineering |
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| Code mode lost by 39 seconds.
It is supposed to be the faster way for agents to call MCP tools. Fewer round trips, s… |
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| On August 13th the facility hosting our Phoenix region lost cooling, and most of the region went down because of overhe… |
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| We raised a $45M Series B led by Peak XV, with YC and GV tripling down. Blacksmith is now valued at $550M.
We closed t… |
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2026-08-12 |
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| On July 21st our control plane experienced significant service degradation. Customers experienced delays in jobs being … |
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| the fastest bus in SF is out there.
it's just too fast to pose for us.
snap a better pic, @ us and we'll drop you a p… |
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| congrats to momentic on the launch 💛
proud to see the best companies ship with Blacksmith |
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| another day, another OSS repo running 2x faster on Blacksmith for free
who should we sponsor next? |
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| spotted in SF doing free advertising for the tire shop https://t.co/vijesH9XOh |
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| Blacksmith has been named to @Redpoint's 2026 InfraRed 100!
We're building developer infrastructure to help devs (and … |
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| very cool build🦞 |
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| 3.7M jobs and $511K in compute, nbd |
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| We got rid of the most mind-numbing step in CI.
With Container Caching, you no longer need to spend time pulling your … |
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2026-04-28 |
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| Cached.
Loaded.
Shipping soon. https://t.co/jLL9f3wAku |
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| One of the most fun projects we've shipped to date was reverse engineering github actions cache to make it up to 10x fa… |
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| @_howardjohn switched to Blacksmith and his E2E tests went from 10 min to 2
https://t.co/5sNZ09SPKR https://t.co/a84j… |
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| Congrats to @FactoryAI on their Series C! Stoked to keep building with you 🏭 |
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| Blacksmith Mac Runners are here.
M4 Pro chips. Local NVMe storage. 2-4x faster builds vs. GitHub-hosted runners.
If… |
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2026-04-16 |
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| 2-4x faster builds across the board, almost here https://t.co/0slIcuKK79 |
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| We do feed our people well |
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| A single customer with a spiky workload hurts utilization. Hundreds of them smoothen it out.
The math behind running a… |
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2026-04-09 |
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| A fast validation loop is more important than ever.
Proud 🦞 supporters |
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2026-02-19 |
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| Your builds will soon have a hype meter. https://t.co/uokF6kKuWL |
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| CPUs are humming, packets are flowing, runners are running.
Seriously though, hugops to the GH team 💛 |
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| Coming to a Blacksmith dashboard near you https://t.co/Cpd9uVYl4q |
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2026-01-28 |
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| Last week, CI usage on Blacksmith hit 31.6k vCPUs at peak -- a 30% increase since early December.
Agents are validatin… |
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2026-01-27 |
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| We love being the foundation on which companies can completely change the face of their CI with some elbow grease. @kei… |
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2026-01-09 |
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| New year, new addition to the Blacksmith team! Andrew is a master at creating delightful user experiences. He's joining… |
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| Happy holidays from Blacksmith! We take your CI very seriously… Ourselves? Not so much ✨️ https://t.co/jwo6wez1ha |
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| ISP routing issues are never fun to deal with especially on Thanksgiving day. This prompted us to build an break-glass,… |
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| Starting March 1, 2026, GitHub Actions will add a $0.002/min platform fee on all Actions usage, even when you run jobs … |
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| Today at Blacksmith, we’re launching Windows runners in public beta.
This was one of our most requested products from … |
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| Your CI jobs shouldn’t feel like a black box.
Today at Blacksmith, we’re launching VM Metrics – live CPU, memory, and … |
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2025-11-20 |
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| After months of being in beta our swag is now GA, some reviews heard in the wild:
"this tshirt feels more like a sweat… |
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