Testing Blacksmith as a faster, cheaper alternative to GitHub Actions for CI/CD
By
Allen Pike
Hand-rolled, kettle-boiled, baked to perfection. Worth every minute at the bakery.
Summary
A developer team frustrated with GitHub Actions' slow and expensive CI/CD pipelines tries Blacksmith, a YC startup offering a faster, cheaper drop-in replacement. After importing their GitHub setup, they found it was indeed faster, though cost savings were less clear during the free trial. The article explores the trade-offs and the dilemma of what happens when the free trial ends.
Key quotes
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Blacksmith is a YC startup that bills itself as a drop-in replacement for GitHub Actions, but cheaper and faster.
Blacksmith imported our GitHub setup, and… it was faster!
Maybe also cheaper, too, though that's less clear when you're on the free trial.
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