Depot has been quietly working to make Docker builds very, very fast

h/t to @sds for finding them, we now use them everywhere

Building @warpcast and @farcaster. Previously Coinbase, Brigade, Causes.

Depot has been quietly working to make Docker builds very, very fast

h/t to @sds for finding them, we now use them everywhere

https://depot.dev/

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

does it parallelize under the hood or is their hardware a lot faster? asking bc we have a lot of multi stage docker builds that are sequential

i used to search the mempool now i search smart contracts http://codeslaw.app http://eips.wtf buidl @electriccapital views own, nfa

Thanks for the tag and shoutout!

Depot is a remote container build service. We are running BuildKit up on cloud VMs with 16 CPUs and 32 GB of memory + a persistent 50 GB volume for layer cache, cache mounts, etc. We also run native builder for both Intel & Arm. The combo of all those things produces the faster builds.

Regarding parallelization, BuildKit can build multiple stages in parallel out of the box. But we also parallelize a few other things with our own fork:

- Build multiple images concurrently if you use `bake`
- When pushing, we export layers in parallel & push to multiple registries in parallel if you need that