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Buildkite
Company blog · buildkite.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Buildkite is the company blog at buildkite.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2015, 61 different Hacker News readers have linked it 92 times, most often “Buildkite CLI Homepage”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Commenters mostly mention Buildkite the CI/CD product, with self-hosted agents, rather than its blog. The one blog post cited is a write-up on UUIDv7 and moving away from integer IDs.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- Called a useful explanation of UUIDv7 in the post on moving from integers to UUIDs.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The fastest CI for AI workflows at scale nothing else survives. Leading software teams across industries have standardized on Buildkite for CI and orchestration.
Most-linked posts?
- Buildkite CLI Homepage12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2016-01-26
- /11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2016-04-19
- Bye Sequence, Hello UUIDv73 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-09-26
- /features3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-03
- Dynamic CI Pipelines with Bazel and Buildkite2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-01
- Buildkite announces new free plan2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-31
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-01
- Applying SRE Principles to CI/CD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-17
- Buildkite has quietly removed their $9 "Team" plan2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-28
What Hacker News says?
There are debug version apks available here: https://buildkite.com/matrix-dot-org/element-android/builds/... Click on "Assemble GPlay Debug version" (or "Assemble FDroid Debug version" if you don't have Google Play Services), then click on "Artifacts" and then choose your apk from there.
Comment linking /matrix-dot-org/element-android/builds/latest?branch=develop&state=passed
on “Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store”Submitted Animated Gifs in Your Log Output as a story · 32 points
HN discussionHave you looked at Buildkite[0]? The management/pipeline part is hosted (like Travis), but you run the build agents on your own infrastructure (they run on pretty much everything, including macs). Not affiliated, just a happy user. [0] http://buildkite.com
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on “How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes”Submitted The Quest to Secure chown and symlinks as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI think that is a very valid approach. We use https://buildkite.com/ for ci and they have exactly that model, where they manage the admin panel and meta data db, but worker nodes can be deployed elsewhere
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on “Graphcool – Serverless GraphQL Back End”Submitted Bye Sequence, Hello UUIDv7 as a story · 9 points
HN discussionOnce you need something a bit more heavyweight than Travis (e.g. more CPU) I would highly suggest Buildkite ( https://www.buildkite.com ). It’s a “bring your own machines” solution, which means you can have beefy machines (e.g. via buildkite on EC2 spot autoscaling), or even machines that run inside production without handing buildkite itself any secrets. We’ve been using it at Ladder and it’s been phenomenal. Also…
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on “How to set up continuous deployment using free hosted tools”Submitted Buildkite Test Analytics, a new way to identify, track and fix problematic tests as a story · 9 points
HN discussionneat. Looks similar to https://buildkite.com .
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on “Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions”Submitted Buildkite raises $21M Series B as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI love buildkite and I wish they had better pricing model -- we would definitely love to pay for more. Pros of buildkite: - Very powerful. Plugin system is amazing and easy to extend. We wrote our own buildkite-docker executor, and I merged a lot of parts from it to the docker plugin upstream - UI is a lot prettier and responsive than Gitlab's - Dynamic pipelines ! - Hooks are extensive and powerful. Precheckout, Ch…
Comment linking /changelog
on “Phabricator – GitHub Alternative written in PHP used by the Wikimedia Foundation”Submitted How Lyft's mobile team does mobile CI at scale as a story · 8 points
HN discussionBuildkite also has hosted runners (which they all agents): https://buildkite.com/docs/pipelines/hosted-agents
Comment linking /docs/pipelines/hosted-agents
on “Advent of Sysadmin 2025”Submitted Buildkite CLI Homepage as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe thing that made CI more affordable for us was to rent our own Hetzner servers, and switch to https://buildkite.com Prior to this we were with CircleCI, and before that Travis CI.
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on “GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable”Submitted Ephemeral macOS Builds with Buildkite, Nix, and Tailscale as a story · 4 points
HN discussion>Lack of local development. It's a known thing that there is no way of running GitHub Actions locally. This is one thing I really love about Buildkite[0] -- being able to run the agent locally. (Full disclosure: I also work for Buildkite.) The Buildkite agent runs as a normal process too (rather than as a Docker container), which makes the process of workflow development way simpler, IMO. I also keep a handful of ag…
Comment linking /docs/agent/v3
on “I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again”Submitted Show HN: Buildkite Test Analytics: observability for your test suite as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTo be honest, if the boxes were smaller, I couldn't definitively say as I'm also red-green color blind. So I'm glad someone could clear it up for us. One great example of the case where I absolutely cannot tell is when you have a LOT of tests in something like buildkite https://buildkite.com/features and most API status pages (many small green/yello/red circles/boxes).
Comment linking /features
on “Color blindness”Submitted Scale beyond CI/CD and deliver your product as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt costs money, but for other readers, I've been using Buildkite[0] at two different companies across ~4 years now and it's great. It's _mostly_ self-hosted in that jobs run on your own hardware and Buildkite itself is only the job queue that your self-hosted agents pull work from. They also provide an elastic CI stack[1] so you can have auto-scaling workers running on AWS You still own enough of it that if the serv…
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on “GitHub Actions is my new favorite free programming tool [video]”Submitted Buildkite announces new free plan as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> and no small list of dependencies... And that is why AppImage (as dev of ReHex did[0]) is much better way to provide binary for Linux, than ZIPed static linked binary package. Just trying to execute binary from release asset `ImHex_1.5.0_Linux.zip`[0] under Debian 10: $ ./ImHex ./ImHex: error while loading shared libraries: libglfw.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory UPD: And just after…
Comment linking /solemnwarning/rehex/builds
on “ImHex – A Hex Editor”Submitted The sneaky costs of CI apathy, and what top teams do about it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe rails team already does the latter, subject to their specified compatibility matrix. Current rails requires Ruby 3.1, so CI only runs on that version and later. https://buildkite.com/rails/rails/builds/103981
Comment linking /rails/rails/builds/103981
on “Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0”Submitted A Guide to Bazel Query as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNote that it can take several days or weeks for all the supported devices to get initial public builds made. You can track all the pending build jobs here: https://buildkite.com/lineageos/android/builds?branch=lineag...
Comment linking /lineageos/android/builds?branch=lineage-22.1
on “LineageOS 22”Submitted Issues with session IP address pinning in IPv4 and IPv6 dual-stack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionUseful explanation on UUIDv7 https://buildkite.com/blog/goodbye-integers-hello-uuids
Comment linking /blog/goodbye-integers-hello-uuids
on “UUID v7”Submitted Buildkite has quietly removed their $9 "Team" plan as a story · 2 points
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