Blacksmith provides a high-performance CI solution that accelerates GitHub Actions by utilizing optimized gaming CPUs, achieving build times up to 2x faster and costs over 50% lower than traditional GitHub runners. This technology enables unlimited concurrency and colocated caching, significantly enhancing the efficiency of continuous integration workflows for businesses.
Funding
$500K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Continuous integration (CI) workflows on GitHub Actions can be slow and expensive due to the limitations of standard GitHub-hosted runners. Developers often face bottlenecks due to resource constraints and limited concurrency, leading to longer build times and increased costs.
Solution
Blacksmith provides a CI solution that accelerates GitHub Actions by leveraging high-performance compute infrastructure. By running CI workloads on optimized gaming CPUs instead of standard server hardware, Blacksmith achieves faster build times and lower costs. The platform offers unlimited concurrency and colocated caching, enhancing the efficiency of continuous integration workflows.
Target Audience
Blacksmith targets businesses and development teams using GitHub Actions who seek to improve CI performance, reduce costs, and enhance developer productivity.
Features
- Utilizes high-performance gaming CPUs optimized for CI workloads
- Offers up to 2x faster build times compared to GitHub-hosted runners
- Provides over 50% cost savings compared to GitHub-hosted runners
- Enables unlimited concurrency for runners of all sizes
- Features a colocated cache with VMs for 4x faster read and write speeds
- Delivers serverless CI with thousands of vCPUs and no cold start delays
- Includes out-of-the-box analytics for GitHub Action pipelines, including workflow and cache analytics
- Runs jobs in isolated virtual machines directly on bare metal
- Offers SOC2 Type 2 compliance