Buildkite on The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast

Kelsey just talked about what CICD looked like in the twenty tens and how difficult deploying to prod was, which leads us nicely to our episode sponsor, BuildKite. This type of manual deploy error was the time when BuildKite was created. Engineering orgs were trying to figure out how to ship more frequently, more than once a week, and those running into WAF first turned to BuildKite. Shopify started running on Buildkite in 2015. Airbnb, Canva, Uber, and OpenAI have all been using Buildkite for seven to twelve years. Throughout the twenty tens, the hardest CI problems in the industry for global software leaders were getting solved on Buildkite pipelines. That's exactly what makes BuildKite the CI platform most in tune with what's happening right now. Gen AI throughput is pushing everyone's build queue to its limits. Coding agents are pushing commits five, ten, 50 times the volume that your defaults were built for. The same architecture that absorbed Shopify's traffic at scale five to ten years ago now absorbs the share push from Entropic, Cursor, Meta, Mistral, Cohere, VLM, XAI, Lambda, and more who are all BuildCAD customers. Where other CIs are cracking under the weight, BuildKite is running about 1,400,000,000 job minutes a week. Agents run on your infrastructure or on BuildKites. Every artifact and log is captured. And when something fails, you see the why immediately. If you're hitting ceilings on your existing CI or downtime is becoming more problematic for your delivery, head to buildkite.com/pragmatic.