Blacksmith

Blacksmith is a cloud-based continuous integration (CI) platform designed to enhance the efficiency of GitHub Actions. The service acts as a drop-in replacement for GitHub runners, enabling users to run CI/CD processes at significantly higher speeds. Blacksmith claims to execute CI tasks two times faster, download caches four times faster, and build Docker images forty times faster than traditional methods. This performance is achieved through a specialized hardware-software stack that utilizes bare metal gaming CPUs optimized for high single-core performance, along with co-located cache stora…