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Case Study: Introducing Pants to Oxbotica

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Case Study: Introducing Pants to Oxbotica

A year in, builds take only a few minutes (~150K LOC, ~1500 tests), PRs have become smaller as devs no longer try to squeeze as much as code as possible into a single change, code reviews get completed much faster (and are more likely to provide useful feedback), development velocity has increased…

Skipping GitHub Actions jobs while keeping branch protection rules that require them

Skipping GitHub Actions jobs while keeping branch protection rules that require them

How we worked around some quirks and limitations of GitHub Actions to skip CI jobs that aren't necessary in certain scenarios, without breaking branch protection rules that normally require those CI jobs to succeed.

Better CI/CD caching with Pants

Better CI/CD caching with Pants

Pants is designed to utilize fine-grained caching to speed up builds. Users are often interested in how this interacts with CI providers' own caching features, which are necessary since CI jobs typically run in fresh containers, with no direct access to previous state. In particular, we get questions about how

How we streamlined Apple M1 Support with self-hosted Github Actions runners

How we streamlined Apple M1 Support with self-hosted Github Actions runners

We ended up setting up a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner, on a hosted Mac M1. Getting the machine itself up and running was easy, thanks to MacStadium's simple, effective UX. But setting up the GHA runner on it was a little trickier, for a couple of reasons...