Jacob Gillespie | Depot Blog

Posts by Jacob Gillespie

Announcing Depot Metal

Depot Metal is our next-generation compute and storage platform. Depot CI and Sandboxes are now running on it, with benchmarks showing workloads 30% faster and more optimizations on the way. You don't have to do anything to get it.

8x faster queries with PlanetScale Metal

How PlanetScale Metal accelerated our database query performance and allowed us to store extended build analytics data.

macOS GitHub Actions Runners are now twice as fast

We are excited to announce an upgrade to Depot-managed macOS GitHub Actions runners that greatly accelerates disk I/O for all macOS jobs.

Making EC2 boot time 8x faster

It's possible to cut EC2 boot time from 40 seconds to 5 seconds by combining several optimizations like root volume streaming, instance warm pools, and instance resizing.

Building containers from scratch: Layers

Exploring how OCI images represent layers, how layers can modify and delete files from previous layers, and how container runtimes combine layers into a single filesystem.

Introducing the Dockerfile Explorer

We're excited to release the Dockerfile Explorer, a tool for introspecting the LLB output of BuildKit's Dockerfile parser.

Reducing time-to-start

We're reducing time-to-start by optimizing EC2 instance boot time, infrastructure provisioning, and improving UI and CLI flows to reduce unnecessary steps.

New build summary link and a refreshed UI

We're added a build summary link for every build and refreshed the build details UI to make it easier to see what's going on with your builds at a glance.

Kysely dialect for PlanetScale

A Kysely dialect for PlanetScale that allows you to write type-safe and autocompletion-friendly SQL queries.

Fast Dockerfiles: theory and practice

Writing a Dockerfile that builds quickly involves understanding the Docker layer cache and working with it to maximize the number of cache hits between builds.