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Reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache to make it fast

calendar_today July 23, 2025 person Aaditya Sondhi domain blacksmith-sh

Blacksmith reverse-engineered GitHub Actions cache internals to transparently route requests through their faster, colocated cache infrastructure, achieving up to 10x faster cache performance without requiring users to modify their workflows. The solution involved building proxy layers and adapting Azure Blob Storage semantics to S3-compatible storage.

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