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Taking Buildkite from a side project to a global company

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86 points shandsaker_au | 1 comments | 07 Sep 25 22:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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exidy ◴[08 Sep 25 01:01 UTC] No.45163770[source]▶
I love BuildKite. It might seem obvious now but I feel like BK had two key ideas -- fully declarative pipelines and a hybrid SaaS control plane / customer-managed workers concept that made it so much easier to deploy into large enterprises. That combined with a UI that was clear and a pleasure to work with.

I do wonder how BK will continue in a world that's increasingly dominated by GitHub and and other integrated solutions, but I hope as long as there's a market for quality tools, BK will survive and thrive.

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1. kawsper ◴[08 Sep 25 10:37 UTC] No.45166663[source]▶
It also allowed us (a small startup) to run huge test suites, on cheap dedicated hardware from Hetzner, without sacrificing the developer experience.

It was the bill I was the happiest to pay.

We used Knapsack Pro to efficiently parallelise our Ruby test suite.

Today, I still use Buildkite, but now I build golden images (with packer) and deploy them with terraform.