Mastering Gradle Caching and Incremental Builds

Introducing Cirrus CI

“Wait what!? Yet another CI? Gosh…” one can say after seeing the title. Honestly, at Cirrus Labs we had the same thoughts and we tried to talk ourselves out of building yet another CI. But let us explain why we think there is a need for a better CI and how Cirrus CI is better.

Core principle of Continuous Integration systems is obsolete

Cirrus CLI — CI-agnostic tool for running Dockerized tasks

Cirrus CI Stack

Usually it’s advised for a startup to launch as soon as possible and usually it means as hacky as possible. If a startup survives further down the road, tech debt is just growing and there is never time to fix it. It’s just like a snow ball.

New macOS task execution architecture for Cirrus CI

Introducing Container Builder for Cirrus CI

When Cirrus CI was announced a few months ago Docker support was already pretty sophisticated. It was possible to use any existing Docker container image as an environment to run CI tasks in. But even though Docker is so popular nowadays and there are…

HTTP Caching for GitHub Actions

Effective caching is by far the best option for speeding up your CI builds. You can optimize some computations and throw more CPUs on the problem but nothing is more efficient than just not doing the work at all by reusing cached results from some previous CI builds.

Isolating network between Tart’s macOS virtual machines