Rewriting the Buildbox Agent
The text discusses the development of a Buildbox agent for running builds on CI servers that are not controlled by the user. Initially, the author considered using SSH but abandoned it due to security and scalability concerns. Instead, they wrote a small program in Ruby that customers would run on their CI server. However, issues with installation, memory usage, and security led the author to rewrite the agent in Golang. The new version of the agent is expected to address these problems.
Company
Buildkite
Date published
Feb. 18, 2014
Author(s)
Keith Pitt
Word count
503
Hacker News points
None found.
Language
English