[SoftTalker]

> Being "fast" is not a selling point

It could be, if that is a pain point for the customer. You could be 10x faster than any other option, but if "slow builds" are not on the top 10 list of problems they are dealing with, it's a meaningless statistic.

[rewmie]

> It could be, if that is a pain point for the customer.

But is it, though?

I mean, are any of the competing CICD services noticeably slow, specially if we focus on the system's overhead?

I don't think there are, at all.

We're talking about at best millisecond differences in workflows that take minutes just to do the things we tell them to, such as setting up a build environment.

[crakhamster01]

I'm only hearing about Earthly through this blog post, but is their optimization just shaving time off of overhead? From their landing page, it sounds like their system made caching and build targets a first class feature.

> Rebuild only what has changed, automatic parallel execution, automatic caching with no configuration required for the entire pipeline, no upload/download of cache – instantly available

You _could_ get these benefits on other providers like CircleCI, but it would require a lot more work/customization.