Darkbloom's Mac-based CI network cuts costs 50% and doubles performance
gajesh · x · 2026-11-07
Darkbloom's gajesh shares pilot results for "Darkbloom Sandbox," their self-built macOS CI network: internal CI costs down 50%, performance up to 2x, with 125 CI hours completed. Dashboard stats show:
- 683 jobs, 124 CI hours, and 1,470 vCPU-hours in the last 24h; 3,262 jobs and 448 CI hours over 10 days.
- macOS accounts for 98% of CI hours in the last 24 hours; roughly 20 Macs online.
- Payouts to Mac providers began Nov 3, at roughly $500-700/day.
They're recruiting providers with strong Apple Max/Ultra machines for RL workloads and macOS app builds.
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