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Core principle of Continuous Integration systems is obsolete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 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.

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…

Announcing Compute Credits for Cirrus CI

Cirrus CI was created with a simple idea: allow engineering teams to connect different compute services based on their needs. Use Kubernetes to run builds in Linux containers, use Azure for running any Windows related builds or configure Anka Build Cloud on…