Blacksmith

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith has seen its valuation skyrocket from $60 million to $550 million in less than a year, fueled by rising demand for faster code validation tools.

Concepts, rules of thumb, and what dissecting a few hundred CI builds says about them.

Why I joined Blacksmith to work on storage again and where off-the-shelf storage runs out

How we built line-rate network observability for untrusted CI jobs without touching the guest.

What's the right behaviour when "try for free" ends?

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