Buildalon

Local development builds are fast, but they don’t scale. Cloud builds scale, but they’re so slow they leave devs stuck waiting two hours to get a PR approved.

Buildalon solves this problem by providing fully cached GitHub Action Runners that can drop your incremental build times by over 50%, while being fully managed and scalable. This is the ideal solution for large projects like desktop apps, mobile apps, games, and more.

When you sign up for Buildalon, runners are allocated to your account. To use those runners, you just have to change the runs-on labels in your GitHub workflow. That’s it.

Jobs are automatically balanced between your Buildalon runners, which come preinstalled with the same software as standard GitHub Action Runners. When the job is done, any installed software and built artifacts remain on the runner, like they would be on your local machine. The next job can reuse those artifacts to significantly speed up the incremental build time.

This preserves the speed boost of local builds and the benefits of cloud compute, which can easily be scaled up or down, parallelized, or reset to a clean state. Together these qualities make Buildalon cost effective and much easier to set up than a custom solution.