This company provides continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) solutions using Bazel builds and managed runners. Their platform streamlines software development workflows, offering configuration management and support for development teams using GitHub Actions.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Software development teams often face bottlenecks due to slow build times and the overhead of managing CI/CD infrastructure. Maintaining self-hosted runners can be complex and costly, while inefficient build processes can delay releases and hinder developer productivity.
Solution
FasterCI provides a cloud-based CI/CD platform that accelerates software development workflows using optimized Bazel builds and managed runners for GitHub Actions. The platform offers both ephemeral and persistent runners, allowing teams to choose the infrastructure that best suits their needs. By leveraging persistent runners and robust build caching, FasterCI significantly reduces build times for Bazel projects. The platform also handles CI infrastructure management, freeing developers to focus on coding and feature development.
Target Audience
FasterCI targets software development teams, particularly those using Bazel, who want to accelerate their CI/CD pipelines, reduce infrastructure management overhead, and optimize CI costs.
Features
- Optimized runners for GitHub Actions, available as managed or on-premise solutions
- Support for both ephemeral and persistent runners, with various configurations of vCPU, memory, and disk space
- Persistent runners with build cache for up to 60x faster Bazel workflows
- Secure runner environment with options to restrict workflow secrets to specific branches
- Configuration-as-code approach for version controlling CI configurations
- Integration with GitHub for authentication and workflow triggering
- Support for both Intel/AMD64 and Arm64 architectures