Jerry Orr's essay argues that development pipelines, including CI/CD and QA environments, should be treated as production systems with outage-level urgency, a view echoed by Hacker News commenters. Th…
A six-week investigation into Bun's claimed rewrite in Rust reveals that the project has not released a new version since the rewrite was merged to main on May 14, 2026, with the last release tag dati…
Dex Horthy, CEO and cofounder of HumanLayer, coined the term 'context engineering' and shared lessons from building AI agents, including that shipping unread code leads to disaster within months after…
Developers are increasingly turning to Buildkite for CI/CD as GitHub struggles with exponential growth in pull requests and automation driven by AI coding agents. Buildkite, used by Airbnb, PagerDuty,…
Buildkite, a 13-year-old Australian startup, is seeing a surge of interest from companies like Airbnb and Shopify as a CI/CD tool that can handle the increasing number of build jobs demanded by AI cod…
Buildkite engineers implemented async LLM inference through the Bifrost AI gateway to prevent build workers from blocking on slow model calls. By switching to a submit-and-poll pattern, workers no lon…
Buildkite ran a game day that fault-injected OpenAI with 429s and 500s to test whether Bifrost's fallback config would reroute requests for an LLM-backed build-failure summariser. After fixing a retry…
Kelsey Hightower, a self-taught technician who rose to become a Google Distinguished Engineer, discusses his unconventional career path, the rise of Kubernetes, and his philosophy that technology shou…