Case Study: Nominal achieves 10-minute merge-to-live deployments with Depot

Nominal cuts Docker build times from 12 minutes to 4 minutes with Depot

The customer, Nominal, a data supply chain platform for hardware engineering, faced significant CI build delays that cascaded across their multi-tenant, air-gapped, and on-prem deployment targets. As AI coding tools increased PR volume, their 15-minute builds slowed their ability to deliver fast fixes to customers. They needed a faster, more reliable CI solution from a vendor like Depot, specifically seeking superior caching.

Depot provided its GitHub Actions runners, remote container builds, and Depot Cache to solve the challenge. The results were substantial, including a 16x improvement in Windows linking times and Docker builds that became 3x faster. This led to a full deployment process of roughly 10 minutes from merge to live, giving Nominal a major reputational advantage through drastically improved recovery and response times for their customers.

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