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Shipyard
Company blog · shipyard.build/blog · on HN as HollyDevRelprogrammingsystems
Shipyard is the company blog at shipyard.build, writing about programming and systems. Since 2021, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Makefiles Are Still the Best for Modern Development”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Shipyard's blog for posts on developer tooling, including Makefiles for modern development and automating git bisect with ephemeral environments. Shipyard also appears in HN hiring threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Shipyard is an environment management platform for engineering teams. Shipyard automates the life cycle of ephemeral environments, helping teams deliver features faster and improve their DORA Metrics while reducing cloud spend by up to 70%.
Most-linked posts?
- Makefiles Are Still the Best for Modern Development5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-01-06
- Makefiles for Modern Development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-14
What Hacker News says?
Shipyard ( https://shipyard.build/ ) | New York, NY or Remote, US | Full-Time | Full-stack/Backend Engineer Shipyard creates and manages copies of environments (i.e. instances of an application) so you don't have to. From dev to production, Shipyard automates the provisioning of these environments (and the underlying infrastructure) at all steps of the software development lifecycle. Stack includes Python, Golang, J…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted How to Containerize Your Docusaurus (and Why You Should) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionShipyard ( https://shipyard.build/ ) | New York, NY or Remote, US | Full-Time | Founding Account Exec Shipyard accelerates the way software teams build and deliver products by automating the lifecycle of full-stack ephemeral environments for on every pull request. Rather than reviewing and testing features on shared, unreliable environments, software teams can collaborate centrally and securely in short-lived Shipya…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted Shipyard Feature Release: Introducing the CLI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionShipyard ( https://shipyard.build/ ) | New York, NY or Remote, US | Full-Time | Founding Account Exec Shipyard accelerates the way software teams build and deliver products by automating the lifecycle of full-stack ephemeral environments for on every pull request. Rather than reviewing and testing features on shared, unreliable environments, software teams can collaborate centrally and securely in short-lived Shipya…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)”Submitted Makefiles Are Still the Best for Modern Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionShipyard ( https://shipyard.build/ ) | New York, NY or Remote, US | Full-Time, Contract | Marketing Designer Shipyard helps teams create and manage Git-based environments. From dev to production, Shipyard automates the provisioning of these environments (and the underlying infrastructure) at all steps of the software development lifecycle. We're growing quickly and proudly backed by Heavybit, Work-Bench, Array, and…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)”Submitted Containers Are Here to Stay as a story · 2 points
HN discussionShipyard ( https://shipyard.build/ ) | New York, NY or Remote, US | Full-Time | Full-stack/Backend Engineer Shipyard helps teams dynamically create and manage ephemeral environments on Kubernetes. From dev to production, Shipyard automates the provisioning of these environments (and the underlying infrastructure) at all steps of the software development lifecycle. We're proudly backed by Heavybit ( https://www.heavy…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)”Submitted Getting Started with Kubernetes in 2 Days as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnd it still holds true for development today! Really any organization that has multiple languages should consider making their devs lives easier with Make. And of course, it plays great with Docker & Compose, here's a write-up we did on using Make with container tooling: https://shipyard.build/blog/makefiles-for-modern-development...
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on “Why I Prefer Makefiles over Package.json Scripts”Submitted Docker Compose: Portability from the Start as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Because ephemeral environments are reproducible on demand (via Docker images, Kubernetes pods, or a cloud VM), you can guarantee that each bisect step sees the same conditions. This drastically reduces "works on my machine" fiascos. Agree on this pattern for all code changes. Hard to understate the amount of time we've saved by testing against the full prod-like environment right away . An ephemeral env implementa…
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on “Automating Git Bisect with Ephemeral Environments”Submitted Local-First CI/CD with Makefiles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAt the risk of replicating the classic Dropbox post (why would you need this when you could just use rsync?)… I have a dev box with 96 GB of RAM, 2x4 TB NVMe drives, and an unbelievably beefy AMD CPU. This box costs me less than $150 per month and is so hyperlocal that I can log into it and use it as a remote desktop, while also using it as an always-on server that I can use to run T3 code and tmux and so forth. I c…
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on “Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents”Submitted Managed ephemeral environments as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Makefiles for Modern Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Integrating Doom into Your Webapp with Docker Compose, WebAssembly and Shipyard as a story · 1 points
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