# ci cd tool — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ci cd tool. Page: Feed: --- ## [What is an enterprise software factory? Architecture, requirements, and platforms](https://www.incredibuild.com/blog/what-is-an-enterprise-software-factory-architecture-requirements-and-platforms) _2026-08-19 · Adam Gold · Incredibuild_ An enterprise software factory is a system that repeatedly turns engineering intent into verified software. AI agents perform implementation and judgment-heavy work, while development environments, orchestration, deterministic checks, security policy, compute infrastructure, and human approval keep the process reliable. A coding agent can be one worker in the factory; it is not the entire factory.… ## [GitLab CI/CD vs. GitHub Actions: Scaling, Cost, and CI Architecture for Large Teams](https://www.incredibuild.com/blog/gitlab-vs-github-actions) _2026-08-17 · Dori Exterman · Incredibuild_ For a large team, “which CI platform is faster” rarely has a platform-shaped answer. Neither GitLab CI/CD nor GitHub Actions caches or distributes compute across an organization on its own, so past a certain point, queue time and redundant recompilation dominate regardless of which logo sits on the pipeline. What actually differs between the two \[…\] The post GitLab CI/CD vs. GitHub Actions:… ## [The One Line Where Bazel Hands Android Kernel Builds to Kbuild](https://www.incredibuild.com/blog/the-one-line-where-bazel-hands-android-kernel-builds-to-kbuild) _2026-08-16 · Yossi Eliaz · Incredibuild_ Resources Blog Kleaf runs the main Make/Kbuild build inside one Bazel action. The detailed compiler commands remain nested inside that action. This creates a candidate process-level integration boundary that still requires kernel-scale validation. The practical problem Bazel remote execution distributes Bazel actions. Native Bazel C++ rules often expose one compile action per translation unit,… ## [Top 7 Jenkins Alternatives for Teams That Need Faster CI/CD Pipelines](https://www.incredibuild.com/blog/jenkins-alternatives) _2026-08-13 · Dori Exterman · Incredibuild_ Jenkins earns a specific kind of complaint that other CI platforms mostly don’t. It’s rarely “it’s slow,” at least not at first. It’s “we have someone whose real job has quietly become keeping Jenkins alive.” Patching executors. Tracking which of 1,800-plus plugins are compatible with which LTS release. Reading changelogs before an upgrade because the \[…\] The post Top 7 Jenkins Alternatives for… ## [AOSP 17 Reveals Android’s Next Build Bottleneck](https://www.incredibuild.com/blog/aosp-17-reveals-androids-next-build-bottleneck) _2026-08-11 · Dori Exterman · Incredibuild_ Resources Blog An Analysis of 120,000 Build Tool Invocations Across AOSP 15, 16 and 17 AOSP 17 Is Here. We Looked Beneath the Release Notes. AOSP 17 has arrived, and most of the discussion will focus on what changed in Android itself: platform behavior, APIs, security, compatibility, and device-facing capabilities. We looked somewhere else. Instead \[…\] The post AOSP 17 Reveals Android’s Next Build… ## [7 Signs Your CI/CD Pipeline Needs Build Acceleration (Before Developers Quit)](https://www.incredibuild.com/blog/signs-pipeline-needs-build-acceleration) _2026-08-10 · Yossi Eliaz · Incredibuild_ A slow pipeline doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t fail a health check or throw an alert. It just gets a little slower every quarter, and the team adapts, one small workaround at a time, until the adaptations themselves become the bigger problem. Below are seven signs that adaptation has quietly become the norm, and what \[…\] The post 7 Signs Your CI/CD Pipeline Needs Build Acceleration (Before… ## [CI/CD in 2026: 20 Statistics That Reveal Why Build Speed Is a Business Problem](https://www.incredibuild.com/blog/cicd-pipeline-statistics-trends-2026) _2026-08-04 · Dori Exterman · Incredibuild_ Independent reviewers on PeerSpot (peerspot.com/products/incredibuild-reviews) put Incredibuild at an 8.0 out of 10 average across verified user reviews, independent of anything in this piece. Twenty numbers, pulled from primary sources rather than each other, tell a consistent story: AI-assisted development has pushed code volume up faster than most CI/CD infrastructure was sized for, and the gap… ## [Bazel in the Real World: Gradle, Buck2, Incredibuild, and Adoption Strategy](https://www.incredibuild.com/blog/bazel-in-the-real-world-gradle-buck2-incredibuild-and-adoption-strategy) _2026-07-27 · Yossi Eliaz · Incredibuild_ Part 3 of a three-part series. Part 1 covered Bazel’s history and architecture. Part 2 covered caching, remote execution, and the build supply chain. This final part is about adoption: when Bazel is worth the cost, when it is not, and how to get faster pipelines without turning build strategy into religion. Bazel is \[…\] The post Bazel in the Real World: Gradle, Buck2, Incredibuild, and Adoption… ## [Top 8 GitHub Actions Alternatives for Teams That Can’t Afford Slow Builds](https://www.incredibuild.com/blog/github-actions-alternatives) _2026-07-21 · Dori Exterman · Incredibuild_ Disclosure: I work at Incredibuild. The first several sections below are evaluated on their own merits regardless of who’s writing this; the “Fix the runner, not the platform” section further down is where our own product enters the picture, and it’s labeled as such rather than folded in quietly. On impartiality: the migration-effort and pricing \[…\] The post Top 8 GitHub Actions Alternatives for… ## [Top 10 CI/CD Pipeline Tools in 2026 (and How to Make Each One Faster)](https://www.incredibuild.com/blog/best-ci-cd-pipeline-tools-2026) _2026-07-21 · Dori Exterman · Incredibuild_ On objectivity: this piece has a dual role, comparing ten platforms neutrally and showing where our own product fits, and we’re not pretending otherwise. The per-platform strengths and native-caching details below are accurate independent of Incredibuild; the Incredibuild-specific claims are kept in clearly separated paragraphs and cited where the claim is checkable, so a reader \[…\] The post Top… ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LBhPBTwwkLOJ) _2026-07-21 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [Bazel Caching, Remote Execution, and the Build Supply Chain](https://www.incredibuild.com/blog/bazel-caching-remote-execution-and-the-build-supply-chain) _2026-07-15 · Yossi Eliaz · Incredibuild_ Resources Blog Part 2 of a three-part series. Part 1 covered Bazel’s history, architecture, and Skyframe’s incremental engine. Part 3 will cover adoption strategy against Gradle and Buck2, and where Incredibuild fits. For teams relying on BwoB (Build without the Bytes) and remote execution, the remote cache becomes much closer to load-bearing infrastructure. If an \[…\] The post Bazel Caching,… ## [Bazel, Inside and Out: History, Architecture, and Why It Matters](https://www.incredibuild.com/blog/bazel-inside-and-out-history-architecture-and-why-it-matters) _2026-07-08 · Yossi Eliaz · Incredibuild_ Resources Blog Part 1 of a three-part series. Part 2 covers caching, remote execution, and the software supply chain. Part 3 covers real-world adoption against Gradle and Buck2. This article stands alone. Bazel matters because it turns a build from a pile of scripts into a build graph, and once the graph is explicit, it \[…\] The post Bazel, Inside and Out: History, Architecture, and Why It Matters… ## [Winding Down Ocuroot](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/winding-down-ocuroot) _2026-01-01 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ After 18 months of working on Ocuroot, I think it's time to move on. It's been a heck of a ride and quite the learning experience! ## [Navigating the IaC Bootstrap Problem](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/iac-bootstrap-problem) _2025-11-27 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ When working with IaC platforms, there's usually some infra you need to configure to get them working. With Terraform, you need somewhere to keep your state, for example. How do you configure this infra? Are you stuck doing it manually, or could you automate it? ## [Three things I've learned about Git while building a CI/CD tool](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/things-i-learned-about-git) _2025-11-13 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ Over the years, I got into a narrow routine when using Git for day-to-day development. Now I'm building tools around Git, I'm discovering all kinds of features I'd never noticed before. Here are my favorite three. ## [How Big Terraform Modules Slow You Down](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/big-terraform-modules) _2025-10-30 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ It might be tempting to put all your infrastructure into a single Terraform module for simplicity. But as you scale, this approach will start slowing you down. Here's what can do wrong and how you can address it. ## [How do I test my CI code?](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/how-do-i-test-my-ci-code) _2025-10-16 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ CI/CD pipelines are code too. In this post we'll explore some testing strategies so you're not always left waiting for feedback. We'll also look at what Ocuroot is doing to make it even easier! ## [Complex rollouts with one command - Ocuroot's new Cascade mode](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/cascade-mode) _2025-10-02 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ With Ocuroot's new cascade mode, you can roll out a complex environment with a single command! ## [Feedback needed on Ocuroot v0.3.14. Come try the π!](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/v0.3.14-release-feedback-requested) _2025-09-17 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ The v0.3.14 release of Ocuroot has finally finished baking. I'd love you to give it a try and share your thoughts. ## [Rebuilding ocuroot.com with Go and Ocuroot!](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/rebuilding-ocuroot-com) _2025-09-04 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ Over the past few weeks, I've been rebuilding the Ocuroot landing site in Go, matching the UI for the tool itself. Let's look into the why and the how. ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7uyiR90ZyhQL) _2025-09-04 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [Try, try and retry again - supporting retries in Ocuroot](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/try-try-and-retry-again) _2025-08-21 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ Why retries are important and some first steps in building them into Ocuroot ## [Ocuroot's new state view - a work in progress](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/state-view-web-interface) _2025-08-06 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ Augmenting command-line state manipulation with a web UI for more intuitive navigation. ## [Debugging CI workflows with a miniature CI server](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/debugging-ci-workflows-fake-ci-server) _2025-07-24 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ How I built a lightweight mock CI server to test GitHub Actions workflows locally, speeding up development and debugging cycles. ## [Back to basics: why I'm writing end to end tests in bash](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/back-to-basics-e2e-tests-in-bash) _2025-07-08 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ Sometimes the simplest tools are the most effective. Here's why I chose bash scripts when writing end-to-end tests for Ocuroot. ## [Automating Semantic Versioning with Ocuroot](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/automating-semantic-versioning) _2025-06-26 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ How I'm using Ocuroot to automate semantic versioning for binaries, implementing a pre-release workflow to avoid runaway version numbers. ## [SDK v0.3: Supercharge state management with the new refs model](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/ocuroot-sdk-v0-3-refs) _2025-06-12 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ Introducing the all-new refs model in Ocuroot SDK v0.3, enabling flexible pipeline connections based on any attribute. ## [SDK v0.3: Managing dependencies across deployments](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/ocuroot-sdk-v0-3-dependencies) _2025-05-29 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ An update on how Ocuroot SDK v0.3 will handle dependencies, enabling seamless asset sharing and cross-deployment references. ## [SDK v0.3 update: simplifying phase definitions](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/ocuroot-sdk-v0-3-simplifying-phase-definitions) _2025-05-15 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ A deeper look at the latest refinements to Ocuroot SDK v0.3: ordered phases, direct work specification, and flexible artifact creation. ## [Why would I need more production environments, anyway?](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/why-would-i-need-more-environments) _2025-05-02 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ At some point, many organizations will need to expand beyond a single production environment. Let's look at how you might arrive at this fork in the road! ## [Canary deployments with the upcoming Ocuroot SDK v0.3](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/ocuroot-sdk-v0-3-canaries) _2025-04-14 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ A sneak peek at v0.3 of the Ocuroot SDK, featuring deterministic release ordering, state-machine deployment chaining, and non-blocking delays—with canary deployments as a primary example. ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/N1jXg8p7QkOz) _2025-04-14 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when friends get the Graphite Business Card through your referral. ## [Breaking out of YAML for CI/CD](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/breaking-out-of-yaml-for-cicd) _2025-04-04 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ How imperative code in CI/CD configurations can unlock powerful workflows that declarative YAML simply can't handle. ## [Local testing: the missing piece for rapid development cycles in CI/CD](https://www.ocuroot.com/blog/08-local-testing-missing-piece) _2025-03-21 · Tom Elliott · Ocuroot Blog_ How a good local testing workflow can accelerate your development cycle, approaches you can take today and how Ocuroot can help in the future.