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		moabuaboud on Feb 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Launch HN: Depot (YC W23) – Fast Docker Builds in ... We, at https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces, had been using Depot. Before depot we faced extreme slow builds for ARM-based images on github machines. However, using Depot helped us reduce the image build time from 2 hours (with an emulator) to just 3 minutes. Emulator: https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces/actions/runs/39..., Depot: https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces/actions/runs/40....

timmit on Feb 23, 2023 | [–]

I guess this is a good point, we all can easily have a cheap VPS/EC2 to speed up own docker image build.

But maintaining a matrix of ARMv7, ARM64, X86/X64 instances, it is much more work to do. Than a simple powerful x64 instance.

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