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Rewriting the Buildbox Agent

What's this blog post about?

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


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