Depot Metal's autoscaler grew from a simple pressure loop into a topology-aware system for compute and storage. Next, it must predict demand and converge on desired capacity.
We built a production-shaped load test to find control-plane limits before moving more GitHub Actions traffic to Depot Metal. Each run made our scaling changes measurable.
Depot CI runs GitHub Actions workflows without GitHub’s control plane, keeping CI online during outages and making workflows portable to new forges like Origin.
Launching today in early beta, Origin code hosting features a Depot app to run your existing GitHub Actions workflows on Depot CI for better performance and reliability without GitHub.
Our microVMs launch in under a second, and assembling their block devices in parallel put LVM's roughly 100ms
volume group-wide lock directly in the critical path. We kept the kernel's device-mapper, wrote our own control
plane and gave up crash safety our ephemeral workloads never needed, making allocation roughly 100x faster.
Agents can investigate, plan, and implement faster than I can, but reading a final diff is not the same as understanding why the system works the way it does. I own how the system behaves in production, so I want to keep building my intuition about it.
Most of a large container's startup goes to pulling and decompressing files it never reads to boot. SOCI makes the image seekable so the runtime loads only the bytes it needs, and Depot writes that index during the build, so the image can lazy-load the instant it's pushed.
Report JUnit from your Depot CI or Depot GitHub Actions jobs to see failures in context. A single command runs your suite and uploads the report. Split suites by historical timing and they'll automatically rebalance over time.