Blacksmith Blog

Security is the #1 reason customers walk away from managed solutions. That’s why we are blowing the lid off and sharing our security architecture with you so you can decide: can you trust us?

With millions of jobs running monthly on our bare-metal fleet, we've seen the economics of multitenancy hold up — here's a peek behind the curtain of how the math works.

We can finally stop holding our breath and just say it: we've raised $3.5M for our seed round! This was led by Erik Nordlander at Google Ventures (GV) and Y Combinator.

Docker rate limits are getting much stricter on 1st April, 2025, here are some things you can do in the next few days to avoid breakage in your CI and production deployments.

Blacksmith now provides unprecedented CI visibility — allowing you to slice and dice through your GitHub Actions data to identify regressions, pinpoint failures and inspect interesting exemplars to keep your team productive over time.

Deploying apps still somehow feels like a half-solved problem, but maybe there's hope on the horizon.

Blacksmith is now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, underscoring our commitment to top-tier security practices. Learn about our latest steps to safeguard your data, including pentests, disaster recovery plans, and JIT tokens with Firecracker VMs.

Everyone is stacking their diffs these days. Read about why there is a sudden up-tick in adoption of this workflow, and how this can actually start costing your organization a lot more...unless you implement some checks and balances.