Blacksmith is now SOC2 Type 1 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.
Reflecting on Blacksmith’s transformative journey through YC’s W24 batch, and why aspiring founders should seriously consider applying to YC S24. This detailed recount offers invaluable insights and advice!
Explore how using remote cache with AWS ECR can drastically speed up your Docker builds in GitHub Actions, optimizing performance and reducing costs. Learn the setup and see real performance improvements!
We at Blacksmith have the privilege of observing patterns in thousands of GitHub Action workflow jobs a day. Docker image pulls are a ubiquitous part of most CI workloads — running service containers for integration tests, pulling dependencies for Docker builds, all pull images from a Docker registry.
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.
Discover Blacksmith’s new workflow analytics offering! Get critical insights into performance, spend, and failure rates across your CI pipelines, simplifying maintenance and optimization. Explore our dashboard's powerful features now!
GitHub Actions might cut it for small teams, but as companies scale, BuildKite often emerges as the better choice due to lower CI costs, reliability, enhanced observability, and automated retries.
Explore how using remote cache with AWS ECR can drastically speed up your Docker builds in GitHub Actions, optimizing performance and reducing costs. Learn the setup and see real performance improvements!
