13 engineers on Hacker News describe using Buildkite first-hand: 8 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Buildkite is much simpler with YAML and their plugin infrastructure which is effectively just hooks into scripts. It's well designed.”
endorse · production · stingraycharles · 2026-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even though I'm more of a fan of Buildkite when it comes to configuring the workflows”
endorse · production · peterldowns · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Buildkite at $DAYJOB and haven't looked back.”
endorse · production · cjk · 2025-01-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Buildkite at two different companies across ~4 years now and it's great.”
endorse · production · 4 yr · prophetjohn · 2019-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We never really "switched" to Buildkite; its what we started with, and its been great for us.”
endorse · production · 013a · 2019-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Buildkite is a lot more powerful than Gitlab CI, and the syntax is similar.”
endorse · production · maktouch · 2018-06-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using it for almost a year now, and overall we're pretty pleased.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · twobyfour · 2017-07-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched over from Circle and it's been awesome to scale our build process without fear of resource constraints.”
endorse · production · NightMKoder · 2017-02-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“BuildKite is fine but I wouldn't be that surprised if we move off of BuildKite to a custom thing at some point.”
neutral · production · Jarred · 2026-07-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In 2023 I gave up Jenkins and paid for BuildKite. It's still my hardware. BuildKite just provides the 'services' I described earlier.”
neutral · production · 2 yr · nebezb · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use buildkite, and _everything_ goes through buildkite.”
neutral · production · maccard · 2023-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use buildkite for CI/CD. It runs the same docker compose stuff as we do locally.”
neutral · production · sethammons · 2021-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have a .buildkite to control the build, we have a makefile, a Dockerfile, a docker-compose file, go.mod and go.sum.”
neutral · production · sethammons · 2020-08-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?