Depot

Depot is a build acceleration platform that speeds up Docker image builds and GitHub Actions workflows. It replaces standard docker build commands with depot build, providing native support for both Intel and Arm architectures along with automatic layer caching. The service integrates with existing CI providers and development workflows, allowing teams to maintain their current processes while achieving significant performance improvements. Depot works by providing remote container builds with powerful compute infrastructure and a globally-distributed cache system. The platform offers hosted GitHub Actions runners that run on AWS with 30% faster CPUs and 10x faster networking compared to GitHub's native runners. It also includes a distributed cache that works with various build tools like Bazel, Go, Gradle, Turborepo, sccache, and Pants, making all builds incremental by sharing cache across the entire team and different environments. Depot is particularly valuable for engineering teams working with containerized applications who experience slow build times in their CI/CD pipelines. It helps development teams save hours of waiting for builds to complete, with the platform reporting over 254,000 hours saved for customers in a single week. The service benefits organizations of all sizes, from early-stage startups to public companies, by reducing infrastructure costs while dramatically improving developer productivity through faster feedback loops.