Depot is creating a next-generation, developer-first build platform that utilizes cloud computing to speed up the building process. It seamlessly integrates with the current ecosystem of container tools and services and aims to remove compute bottlenecks, simplify learning curves, and enable developers to build faster.
Founders
Hiring Pitch
Depot is a build acceleration and developer productivity platform that saves companies like PostHog, Wistia, Semgrep, and Secoda thousands of hours in build time every week.
We are developers. We started Depot because we were frustrated with the constant pain of slow build performance. We were fed up waiting for builds and annoyed by the lack of tooling and providers that actually made builds performant. So, we went and built the solution we had always wanted.
Slow builds are the dam standing in the way between mediocrity and innovation. They’re wasteful, expensive, and a drain on developer happiness & productivity. They slow down innovation.
Taking a 40-minute build down to a minute, changes everything. We help folks save literal years in build time every single week.
And we’re just getting started. For us, it’s all about iteration speed and keeping developers in their flow state. Our mission is to be relentless in accelerating software development.
Tech Stack
We are a team of experienced engineers who are constantly evaluating the best tools to help us in our goal of making builds near instant. Currently, we are heavy users of AWS as our core infrastructure provider, write a lot of Typescript and Go code, and have a mix of gRPC & REST APIs.
Accelerating container builds with an optimized version of BuildKit that we have been working on kinda makes using Go the default standard because of the broad ecosystem support.
Most of our orchestration, provisioning, and control plane logic is written in Typescript because it works well enough for what we need. We do have some Go that we are bringing online where latency is very sensitive, like our Depot Cache product.
We're constantly solving these kinds of problems:
- How do we start an EC2 instance to pick up a GitHub Actions job in sub 5 seconds?
- How do we add proper blob storage support to BuildKit?
- How can we avoid relying on flakey GitHub webhooks to know when work is ready?
- How can we make this build 2x fast in the next 24 hours?
- What would a build look like if compute and networks weren't a constraint?
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