Paul Bardea
@pbardea
forger of compute @useblacksmith ✽ Creating…
Spinning up vCPUs like
.@ashbyhq continuously deploys 10x a day to 2500+ customers with Blacksmith. Here's the story of how their GitHub Actions workflows now scale from 0 to 3500 vCPUs in seconds…
We reverse-engineered GitHub Actions cache to make it fast. For the full story, check out our deep dive below.
Mini team dinner, late in SF. The last ones lingering as the restaurant closed.
Powering Turso.
In 4 months, we’ve 3x’d our ARR from $1M to $3M. Here’s how our team at @useblacksmith did it… In short, we went all-in on PLG fundamentals: - Remove friction - Design “aha” moments early and often - Obsess over brand awareness Our brand marketing punched above our weight:…
GitHub self-hosted runnerのメンテナンスが気になる場合は、GitHub Actions runnerのSaaSを検討してみるといいと思います runs-onを変えるだけでGitHub提供Runnerの同等以上のスペックを半額で使えます 弊社はblacksmithを利用して半額以下になりました blacksmith.sh
For any NY eng leaders that are looking for some good food, great conversation, and a fabulous time – DM me
I’ll be hosting a private dinner in NYC for engineering leaders at a 3 Michelin star restaurant in early August. There are only 3 spots left. If you’re interested in joining, please DM me or share for reach.
Understanding what’s happening in your CI shouldn’t be a mystery. Excited to GA log search on Blacksmith. Now you can quickly search through that flaky test failure and see which other PRs are hitting it or if its a failure you might have introduced 🙈
Today, we’re launching a logging platform for GitHub Actions, built with @ClickHouseDB. Here’s how we did it: - N-gram Bloom filter index for fast search - ReplacingMergeTree + async inserts for deduplication - Lucene-inspired query language compiled to SQL - Materialized…
Turso, the next evolution of SQLite (previously codenamed "Limbo") reaches its first alpha milestone and first official release. We are so confident in our foundations, that we are offering you $1,000 if you find any data corruption bugs through our partnership with @algoraio…
very good post on thinking of caching not as an optimization
faster tests -> more tests -> happier engineers. (saving $ also doesn't hurt ;) )
We asked @HammadTime, CTO of @trychroma, about the switch to Blacksmith. “When we started looking for something new, we actually talked to pretty much every vendor that’s out there and we tried every single one of the products that we could find. We evaluated them based on both…
not going to say much more yet but @aaditya_sondhi wasn't happy that we even needed a one-line code change...
.@mintlify → Blacksmith: 2x faster Docker Builds, 50% lower CI costs. “Blacksmith was such a low-effort way for us to instantly benefit from fast CI, allowing us to ship faster. We love Blacksmith.” @hahnbeeIee, Co-founder of @mintlify. Here's the story of how one of our…
Stoked to be part of this team – so much more to come. Scrolling your feed waiting for your CI to build? Give blacksmith.sh a try. You can probably get a PR up before your CI run is done ;) (Did I mention you get 3,000 free minutes a month? 👀)
We can finally stop holding our breath and just say it: we raised $3.5M, led by Google Ventures (@GVteam), to build a high-performance CI cloud. We've partnered with over 600 organizations, including Ashby, Finch, Veed, Clerk, and Mintlify, to deliver the fastest way to run your…
🤝 Big thanks to @useblacksmith! Using Blacksmith Runners, we saw a +40-60% boost in efficiency and -70% reduction in costs for browser-based integration tests Now, our SDK Infrastructure team runs tests reliably, ensuring smooth deployments🚀
@ClerkDev's open source repository, which contains all their JavaScript SDKs, runs all its integration tests on Blacksmith. Here's the story of how their GitHub Actions became so fast that for a brief moment it became the hottest topic in their internal Slack...