UnblockConf21 Talks

An exploration of the biggest problems facing teams implementing CI/CD at scale, and a look at what’s to come.

Introducing: Buildkite Test Analytics, a new suite of features that helps you identify, track and fix problems in your test suites. Hate tracking down flaky and slow tests? Come hear from the Buildkite product team that's working to make your life easier, and get a first-hand look at what we're building, and why.

Bazel is an open source build tool created by Google, helping achieve fast and reliable builds on large projects such as Tensorflow. Join Philipp to learn about Bazel, why they chose Buildkite for their own CI, Bazel tooling and best practices, and how to use it to speed up your Buildkite pipeline.

Lyft has hundreds of mobile developers, and runs thousands of CI builds per week. This talk will cover how we provide the best possible experience for our developers, including the journey we’ve taken so far, our current setup based on Buildkite and Bazel, and where we’re heading next.

The journey of how we updated Pinterest’s iOS build pipelines and switched to autoscaling build queues backed by AWS EC2 Mac. This talk will cover how we’re building the AMIs, managing AWS via Terraform, and where we’re going next.

Continuous Integration. It’s the first step in most developer journeys to Cloud Native. Platform teams, developers, and operations struggle to get it right. In this talk, listen to Lelia and Gary from Wayfair’s Development Platform team laugh through the pain of scaling from 30 engineers to 3000. From 4 hour lead times to 10 minute keyboard-to-production deployments. We’ll use the backdrop of explosive growth at Wayfair to bring relatable hilarity to engineers working in operations, devops, and the software layer! This war story of reducing deploy train brain pain will also break with practical learnings and examples on how you might be able to benefit from our mistakes. Most importantly, we’ll share our Buildkite best practices and features we love. Come laugh with us! (or at us)

Developer velocity can’t be underestimated. Whether it’s building & deploying a hotfix for an urgent production incident, or your regular day-to-day development cycle, a CI/CD pipeline must provide a fast feedback loop. But what happens when your company just keeps on growing and your CI system is starting to cave in under pressure? What can you do if your users are getting frustrated, having critical builds queued for over an hour? In this talk we’ll discuss how Wix built a scalable, highly concurrent CI solution to support 500 engineers, using Buildkite, while reducing the time builds spend in queue (when our CI system is under load) from ~40-60 minutes to merely seconds.