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Transitioning all of our actions to @depotdev runners took me 1 prompt and like 20 minutes of attention yesterday, sped up every action from between 1.3x - 3x. Exciting!

🚀 Depot CI now supports secret and variable variants. Scope by repo, branch, workflow file, or environment. Branch and workflow scopes accept globs. Most specific match resolves at job start, and you can preview the resolution from the dashboard. depot.dev/changelog/2026…

Depot is at @KCD_Toronto today. 🚀 Come find us to talk faster builds, Depot CI, and whatever's slowing your pipeline down.

Today: P50 ~0.6s, P90 ~1.2s. The variance is real, mostly from how root disks now stream out of an OCI-backed registry with on-host chunk caching. VM memory snapshot/restore is the next thing on the bench. Full writeup: depot.dev/blog/optimizin…

Last lever: 1GB hugepages backing VM memory. Cuts page faults, pays off more as the VM uses more RAM. Tried `prefault` first: good for builds, bad for boot. ~0.79s.

We got Depot CI microVMs cold-booting from 7-9 seconds down to under one. No pre-warming, no warm pool, same VMs that run long builds. Here's what each layer of optimization actually bought us.

life before depot 💚

Just your weekly reminder that we saved developers 246,520 hours last week.

@chronark 👌

@depotdev —follow is huge I’ve been wanting that for some time

4 cool updates, 3 changelogs, 2 days, 1 awesome engineering team 🤯🤯🤯 - Live log streaming on `depot ci logs --follow` - New `depot ci metrics` for CPU/memory data - JSON output on `depot ci status` - Registry pull-through caches: provider presets + reusable creds 👇

6/ Full changelog: depot.dev/changelog

5/ Depot Registry pull-through caches got an upgrade. Pick from provider presets for Docker Hub, GHCR, GAR, and ECR instead of typing endpoint URLs. Configure upstream credentials once, reuse across any repository.