Earthly CI: Launching a new era for CI

One thing I'm excited about with this is changing the incentives around builds.

> Paying by compute time means that the slower your build, the more the vendor profits. This creates a perverse incentive for the CI/CD vendor to never innovate in speed. If a CI/CD tool is meant to deliver productivity gains, then correlating the value to how much less productive you are is the wrong way to go.

I've been a very happy user of Earthly and this is one of the final pieces of the puzzle that I've been waiting on[1]. I've found Earthly to be the perfect balance between declarative, repeatable, flexible yet easily understandable.

While I've been fortunate to have early access to Earthly CI, the cool thing is that the Earthly primitives it uses are available for everyone to see in the latest launched version [2]. The only puzzle piece missing is distributing the compute amongst different machines but that appears to be on the team's mind.

And the zero-margin compute pricing is a breath of fresh air.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30869904

[2] https://github.com/earthly/earthly/releases/tag/v0.7.0