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Make it work, make it better: What's new in the Buildkite MCP server

A quick look at what's new, what's better, and what we've learned since releasing our MCP server earlier this year.

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Christian Nunciato

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Recent articles

Blog feature image: Post-incident review, October 20, 2025

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Post-incident review for 20th October 2025

How the recent AWS outage affected Buildkite services, how we responded, and what we learned

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The Buildkite Team

2 minute read

Introducing Test Engine Workflows

Surface and respond to flaky tests automatically with advanced monitors and customizable actions that integrate with your existing tools and processes.

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James Hill

6 minute read

Changelog roundup: August '25

A quick look at what we've been up to lately across the Buildkite platform.

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Christian Nunciato

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Let Buildkite Migration Services transform your CI/CD experience

Our Migration Services team offers hands-on support to help you successfully move from Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions or other CI/CD platforms to Buildkite.

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Emilee Spencer
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Automating Jenkins with Configuration as Code (JCasC)

Learn how to configure your Jenkins controllers, agents, plugins, and more with Jenkins Configuration as Code (JCasC) and Docker Compose.

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Christian Nunciato
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Custom HTML build descriptions in Jenkins

How to build better Jenkins debugging experiences that cut through the noise and help you get to what matters.

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11 minute read

Best practices for managing Jenkins plugins

Practical strategies for keeping your Jenkins plugins under control as you scale.

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Christian Nunciato

12 minute read

Jenkins is free, but costs more than you think

Jenkins may be free, but managing Jenkins at scale certainly isn't. Here are four ways Jenkins may be costing you more than you realize.

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Christian Nunciato
Jenkins vs Github Actions

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GitHub Actions vs. Jenkins: Which one's right for your team?

Choosing between GitHub Actions and Jenkins? Let our practical guide help you understand the key differences between these two CI/CD tools.

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Christian Nunciato
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13 minute read

Building and packaging a Python library with Bazel

A step-by-step guide to building, testing, and packaging a Python library with Bazel and the rules_python core library.

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Christian Nunciato

6 minute read

The sneaky costs of CI apathy—and what top teams do about it

How normalized CI dysfunction can erode your engineering culture, and a few proven approaches to reversing the spiral.

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Christian Nunciato
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9 minute read

Setting up a self-hosted Bazel remote cache on AWS

A guide to deploying a self-hosted Bazel remote cache on AWS, with examples in Terraform and Pulumi.

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Praneet Loke

Featured articles

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Managed, self-hosted, or hybrid CI/CD? Understand your options

Choosing a CI/CD tool can be daunting, but considering where you want the pipeline to run is an excellent place to start—see how the options compare.

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Michael Belton

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The power of Dynamic Pipelines

CI/CD pipelines are the superhighway for your software–sometimes you need more than a one-size-fits-all. Enter, dynamic pipelines!

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Mel Kaulfuss
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Beyond basic test splitting: Buildkite’s approach to test suite parallelization

Learn how intelligent work distribution, historical timing data, and flaky test handling can optimize your test suite performance.

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Steve Bell

Customer stories

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Our Buildkite Brings All the Devs to the Yard: (Re)Building Reddit Mobile CI in 2025

We overhauled CI for our mobile teams, slashing build times by 50% while boosting stability and developer sentiment. Here's how we did it.

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Scaling Faire's CI horizontally with Buildkite, Kubernetes, and multiple pipelines

Breaking apart monolithic continuous integration in our Kotlin monorepo

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How Cruise migrated its monorepo CI from VMs to Kubernetes

500 engineers, tens of thousands of jobs, and a 300GB monorepo: "Buildkite gave us that control and allowed us to optimize for our unique scale."

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How Rippling used Spot instances to save and scale CI/CD

See how we were able to use Spot Instances to save on infrastructure costs.

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Moving Retool's CI from Azure Pipelines to Buildkite with Kubernetes

Retool recently transitioned its continuous integration (CI) environment from Azure Pipelines to Buildkite, using Kubernetes in the test environment.

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uBuild: Fast and Safe Building of Thousands of Container Images

At Uber, we run thousands of different containerized microservices to provide our core services.

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