The Paradigm Shift of CI/CD as a DAG of Tasks

RWX CI/CD argues that conventional CI/CD platforms, which execute script-based jobs on ephemeral virtual machines, duplicate setup work, limit resource customization, complicate parallelism, and require full-job retries after failures. Its alternative defines workflows as directed acyclic graphs of reusable, atomic tasks, allowing shared setup steps to run once and provide outputs to multiple downstream jobs. RWX states that this task-level model improves performance through reduced duplication and semi-persistent infrastructure, enables CPU allocation tailored to individual tasks, supports clearer workflow composition, and permits parallel task execution without the logging and debugging challenges of background scripting. The platform also offers granular retries that automatically rerun affected downstream tasks and automatic content-based caching based on commands and source files, which it presents as a simpler way to gain capabilities comparable to Bazel while retaining an accessible CI/CD workflow.

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