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Make GitHub Actions Faster

by thinkafterbef on 9/14/21, 12:58 PM with 1 comments

  • by thinkafterbef on 9/14/21, 1:20 PM

    Hey HN, We opened up signups last week for BuildJet for GitHub Actions.

    We started with building a full CI with speed and the YAML config as a USP. We got 4x speed and a much better YAML config structure, but despite these improvements, we noticed that it was quite a hard sell for people to migrate to a new unknown CI.

    With this in mind, we decided to build BuildJet for GitHub Actions that uses the same infrastructure but plugs right into Github Action as a "self-hosted" runner, which is automatically set up for you with OAuth. This resulted on average a 2x speed improvement for half the cost(due to us being close to the metal). Easy to install and easy to revert.

    Check it out!