Case Study: Albacore builds ARM64 containers 6x faster with Depot

Albacore builds ARM64 containers 6x faster with Depot

The customer, Albacore, which builds autonomous underwater vehicles, faced a major challenge building ARM64 container images for their drones. Using x86 development machines, their local Docker builds were incredibly slow due to QEMU emulation, with some builds taking over a day and blocking their entire team's progress.

Depot provided a solution with its remote container builds on native ARM64 hardware. This eliminated the emulation layer and integrated directly into their existing workflow. The results were dramatic: uncached ARM64 builds dropped from 30-40 minutes to 5-10 minutes, saving the team hundreds of hours and removing a critical development bottleneck.

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