Ben Poland

Ben Poland, a senior staff platform engineer at Faire, dives into the transformation of CI systems from Jenkins to Buildkite. He discusses the challenges of scaling CI, addressing API throttling and optimizing workflows. Ben shares insights on splitting monolithic pipelines into service-scoped ones for better efficiency and how to manage CI across multiple Kubernetes clusters. Performance enhancements like Git mirroring and predictive provisioning are highlighted, leading to impressive results such as reduced failure rates and faster PR processing.