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Blog

December 1, 2025

6 minute read

What AI is teaching us about CI

What we've learned helping platform teams navigate the new challenges of AI-assisted software delivery.

Ken Thompson

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Recent articles

Designing log navigation tools

December 1, 2025

8 minute read

Designing log-navigation tools in the Buildkite MCP server

A closer look at how we used AI to build a log-parsing toolset that helps AI agents think more like humans do.

Mark Wolfe

Agentic CI examples

December 1, 2025

9 minute read

Agentic CI with Buildkite: Three practical examples

A closer look at our new agentic workflow components and how they enable you to bring LLMs into your CI/CD process.

Christian Nunciato

November 6, 2025

7 minute read

Changelog roundup: October '25

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

Christian Nunciato

A stylized image showin the Kubernetes and Buildkite logos in an integrated motherboard-like diagram.

October 29, 2025

5 minute read

Kubernetes with Buildkite: faster, simpler, and ready for scale

Our latest updates bring easier setup, better scaling, and out-of-the-box observability to your K8s experience.

Josh Deprez

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October 24, 2025

3 minute read

Post-incident review for 20th October 2025

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

The Buildkite Team

October 9, 2025

8 minute read

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.

Christian Nunciato

October 2, 2025

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.

James Hill

6 minute read

Changelog roundup: August '25

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

Christian Nunciato

3 minute read

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.

Emilee Spencer

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15 minute read

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.

Christian Nunciato

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8 minute read

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.

Praneet Loke and Christian Nunciato

11 minute read

Best practices for managing Jenkins plugins

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

Christian Nunciato

Featured articles

October 20, 2023

7 minute read

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.

Michael Belton

November 10, 2023

11 minute read

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!

Mel Kaulfuss

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December 18, 2024

9 minute read

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.

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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