Blacksmith

Blacksmith accelerates continuous integration (CI) processes for companies, promising up to a twofold speed increase at half the cost. This is achieved by leveraging high-performance gaming CPUs for CI execution.

Engineering productivity often suffers from slow CI, which escalates exponentially as engineering teams expand. Furthermore, companies face substantial markups when utilizing hyperscalers for CI. To mitigate costs, many resort to spot instances, but ensuring reliable CI on these instances requires considerable engineering resources due to their potential for pre-emption.

Blacksmith provides a CI compute solution that is not only more performant and cost-effective but also reliable. By using Blacksmith, companies can scale without CI-related concerns.

Initially focusing on GitHub Actions, the leading and rapidly expanding CI system, Blacksmith enables companies to double their CI speed with a simple one-line modification. Additionally, Blacksmith offers colocated warm caches and optimizations tailored for typical CI workloads, such as building and pushing Docker images.

The founders, Aayush, JP, and Aditya, bring extensive systems and product expertise from their tenures at Cockroach Labs and Faire. These companies, with hundreds of engineers, were spending millions on CI while grappling with slow performance and actively seeking more affordable and faster alternatives. Blacksmith provides this solution, aligning with the current emphasis on operational efficiency for most businesses.