RWX CI platform
Ranked 14 of 20 CI/CD services by recommenders
People recommend RWX for much faster CI runs, content-based caching of build tasks, and local runs from the CLI for quicker feedback loops.
People recommend RWX for much faster CI runs, content-based caching of build tasks, and local runs from the CLI for quicker feedback loops.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 89%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Content-based caching of intermediate tasks
“Intermediate tasks are cached in a docker-like manner (content-addressed by filesystem and environment).”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team” “It's built around the same concepts of content-based caching and graph-based task execution”
Comment from 21 Sep 2026 in “AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up” Much faster than GitHub Actions
“It's literally 10 times faster, qualitatively different.”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues” “it's already much faster than github actions”
Comment from 24 Nov 2025 in “We deleted our Dockerfiles: a better, faster way to build container images” Local runs and validation CLI
“You can trigger runs from the CLI for way faster feedback loops.”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion” “we have a great "local" story and a validation CLI”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026” Custom filesystem and container execution
“we have our own underlying filesystem which lazily loads the files from a layer”
Comment from 7 Feb 2026 in “GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team” “we also built our own container execution model with CI specifically in mind”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team”
Other CI/CD services people recommend
The four most recommended other CI/CD services, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Actions | 234 | 741 | 24% | 12 | 2 yrs21 owners | — |
| Jenkins | 67 | 57 | 54% | 9 | — | — |
| GitLab CI | 56 | 25 | 69% | 11 | 3 yrs9 owners | Approved |
| Dagger | 43 | 23 | 65% | 10 | — | — |
| RWX CI platformThis page | 8 | 1 | 89% | 7 | — | — |
What people said
14 of the 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It's literally 10 times faster, qualitatively different.”
“Please look into RWX too!”
“RWX is a wonderful option.”
“It's built around the same concepts of content-based caching and graph-based task execution”
“We just released support for Forgejo with RWX CI/CD”
“Why would anyone move to a closed-source tool like yours? It's 2026.”
“we have a great "local" story and a validation CLI”
“we have our own underlying filesystem which lazily loads the files from a layer”
“Intermediate tasks are cached in a docker-like manner (content-addressed by filesystem and environment).”
“we also built our own container execution model with CI specifically in mind”
“If anyone has any questions or wants to give it a shot, I work at RWX and would be happy to chat more about it!”
“You can trigger runs from the CLI for way faster feedback loops.”
“This is one of the big problems we solved with the RWX CI platform”
“it's already much faster than github actions”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.