DEVOPSdigest

Buildkite announced a Scale-Out Delivery Platform, providing the adaptability and scalability required by the world’s most demanding and complex computing environments.

The platform now includes Buildkite Test Engine, Buildkite Package Registries and Buildkite Mobile Delivery Cloud, giving customers a comprehensive, integrated suite of tools that enhances their software development lifecycle by offering deep test analytics, robust package management and streamlined mobile app delivery capabilities. Buildkite’s scale-out concurrency, enabled by its hybrid architecture, lets developers run 100X more agents and workflows than other delivery platforms and lets users achieve unprecedented speed in software delivery, multiple times, every day.

The Buildkite Scale-Out Delivery Platform Now Includes the following:

- Buildkite Pipelines: Scalable workflow orchestration engine for flexible, programmable software delivery automation.

- Buildkite Test Engine: Unified test suite platform for distributed, intelligent test execution and real-time insights.

- Buildkite Package Registries: High-performance asset management service with rapid indexing and enhanced security features.

- Buildkite Mobile Delivery Cloud: Preconfigured cloud environment for mobile application delivery with performance-optimized build systems and per-minute pricing.

Unlike other vendors who impose concurrency limitations on their users to reduce their own cloud compute costs, Buildkite provides a hybrid model that combines a cloud-based UI with self-hosted agents to enable massive scalability, customizable environments and dynamic resource scaling. Buildkite's per-seat, unlimited-use pricing model scales linearly with team size, offering a compelling alternative to platforms that charge customers based on build minutes or the number of concurrent jobs.

AI-assisted code development is further complicating software delivery for engineering teams. The increased volume and lower quality of this code is putting a strain on outdated build systems, which are struggling to keep pace and slowing software deployment times. Buildkite-hosted solutions for specialized workloads for Linux, macOS, and mobile app development for iOS and Android were created to address these issues.

“The demand for faster release frequency is increasing, but organizations are struggling to keep pace using legacy DevOps tools and require access to modern technology that can provide greater automation, speed, and reliability,” said Jim Mercer, program vice president of Software Development DevOps and DevSecOps at IDC. “To meet demand for efficiency and scalability – particularly in areas like AI/ML workloads and mobile application development – organizations require solutions that can keep pace. Solutions like the Buildkite Scale-Out Delivery Platform can help meet those challenges, supporting organizations as they deliver software across a wide range of environments and workloads.”

Core Capabilities of the Buildkite Scale-Out Delivery Platform Include:

- Scale-Out Concurrency provides engineering teams with near-limitless parallelization, resulting in significantly faster build times and efficient processing of thousands of daily commits across massive codebases.

- Scale-Out Components can be assembled into a delivery system tailored to businesses’ needs, using an open-source build agent that keeps customers’ proprietary code and secrets secure from any third parties, including Buildkite.

- Scale-Out Compute enabled by its hybrid architecture gives users unmatched flexibility and fine-grained choice regarding where and how pipelines run, including self-hosted in the cloud, multi-cloud, or on-premises.

- Scale-Out Workloads support all software delivery workloads and use cases with a single comprehensive platform.

“Modern software delivery is fraught with complexity, and the best developer teams use a ‘delivery first’ mindset—treating delivery as an integral part of the product, and not just an operational burden,” said Keith Pitt, CEO and founder, Buildkite. “Our new Scale-Out Delivery Platform provides the tooling, patterns and best practices of the world-class software companies that have made Buildkite their standard, to all enterprises.”