GitHub Actions Benchmark

PostHog

PostHog is an open-source product analytics suite, built for engineers. Automatically track every event on your website or app, understand your users and how to improve your product, deploy on your own infrastructure to keep control of your data.

With depot build, the past 10 runs were

32.7x faster

saving a total of

28h 13m 38s

compared to docker build.

About the benchmark

For every commit to PostHog/posthog, GitHub Actions runs one workflow job building the project with the docker/build-push-action action and caching enabled and one workflow job building the project with depot build. The time each job takes is recorded and visualized here.

Last 10 GitHub Actions Runs

feat(data-warehouse): populate direct-connection menu from backend (#74019)

10 hours ago

Depot

7m 44s / 20.8x faster

Docker

2h 40m 37s

feat(ducklake): add prepared import registration workflow (#74152)

11 hours ago

Depot

5m 37s / 33.3x faster

Docker

3h 6m 46s

fix(aio): declare order_by on the prompt list query serializer (#74233)

12 hours ago

Depot

4m 56s / 32.5x faster

Docker

2h 40m 23s

feat(web-analytics): backfill AI channel type definitions in clickhouse (#72780)

13 hours ago

Depot

4m 43s / 39.4x faster

Docker

3h 5m 52s

feat(aio): add daily digest scout template (#73595)

14 hours ago

Depot

5m 16s / 35.6x faster

Docker

3h 7m 17s

fix(error-tracking): keep breakdownFiltersLogic mounted at scene root (#66547)

14 hours ago

Depot

4m 33s / 39.6x faster

Docker

3h 13s

fix(warehouse): floor Mercury incremental start to date-only (#74023)

15 hours ago

Depot

4m 31s / 40.7x faster

Docker

3h 3m 38s

fix(error-tracking): tolerate stale source issues when merging (#73834)

fix(aio): enable multimodal for PostHog Desktop (#74135)

17 hours ago

Depot

5m 42s / 28.4x faster

Docker

2h 41m 52s

feat(replay-vision): fix chart and copy summaries (#74073)

18 hours ago

Depot

6m 22s / 24.3x faster

Docker

2h 34m 44s

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Docker Workflow

jobs:
benchmark-docker:
name: Build with Docker
runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v2
- uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
with:
tags: depot/benchmark-posthog:benchmark
cache-from: type=gha
cache-to: type=gha,mode=max

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Depot Workflow

jobs:
benchmark-depot:
name: Build with Depot
runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- uses: depot/setup-action@v1
- uses: depot/build-push-action@v1
with:
tags: depot/benchmark-posthog:benchmark

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