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Depot CI now caches GitHub Actions banner
26.09.16

Depot CI now caches GitHub Actions

Depot CI now caches the source code for GitHub Actions in Depot Code, reducing repeat downloads from GitHub without requiring any workflow changes.
GitHub Actions without GitHub banner
26.09.10

GitHub Actions without GitHub

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.
Why I reimplemented LVM (with worse guarantees) banner

Why I reimplemented LVM (with worse guarantees)

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.
How I delegate the work, not my judgment banner

How I delegate the work, not my judgment

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.
Why SOCI belongs in the build banner
26.08.04

Why SOCI belongs in the build

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.
Now available: Test results in your CI jobs banner

Now available: Test results in your CI jobs

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.

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