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Makes the day-to-day of building software here fast and boring: project templates, local environments, build times and the tools in between.

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Generally availableDeveloper Experience

Golden path service templates

Starting points for new services that come wired up correctly: CI, logging, metrics, health checks and deployment, without copying another team's repo.

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Rolling outDeveloper Experience

Remote build cache

A shared cache for build artifacts so CI and local builds stop repeating work another machine has already done.

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In developmentDeveloper Experience

Standard development containers

A reproducible local environment per repository, so a new joiner can run the service on their first morning instead of their first week.

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Recent updates

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Remote build cache

Cache hit rate is 71% across onboarded repositories

Median CI build time on those repositories is down from 11 to 4 minutes.

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Standard development containers

Pilot with three teams starts this month

Checkout, payments and search are piloting. We are measuring one thing: time from git clone to a running service with test data.

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Remote build cache

Opt in by adding the cache block to your build configuration

Three lines of configuration, documented in the handbook. Nothing changes until you add them.

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Golden path service templates

Python and Go templates updated to the 2026 baseline

Both templates now ship with the supported Ingress API, so services created from them are unaffected by the Kubernetes 1.31 upgrade.