# We write words too

The Blacksmith blog is where our engineers tell the story of what we're building and the lessons we're learning along the way.

## Articles

- [US west region outage due to facility cooling loss on August 13, 2026](/content/blog/us-west-regional-failure-august-13-2026-postmortem/index.html) (Engineering, Aug 19, 2026)
- [Announcing Blacksmith’s Series B led by Peak XV Partners](/content/blog/announcing-blacksmiths-series-b-led-by-peak-xv-partners/index.html) (News, Aug 12, 2026)
- [The physics of Docker build caching](/content/blog/the-physics-of-docker-build-caching/index.html) (Engineering, Jul 31, 2026)
- [Why I joined Blacksmith to work on storage again](/content/blog/why-i-joined-blacksmith-to-work-on-storage-again/index.html) (Engineering, Jul 24, 2026)
- [Blacksmith outage on July 21, 2026](/content/blog/blacksmith-outage-on-july-21-2026/index.html) (Engineering, Jul 22, 2026)
- [What is your CI job talking to?](/content/blog/what-is-your-ci-job-talking-to/index.html) (Engineering, Jul 20, 2026)
- [Closed-loop development: how we shipped Mac runners in 3 weeks](/content/blog/how-we-shipped-mac-runners-in-3-weeks/index.html) (Engineering, Apr 16, 2026)
- [How Blacksmith survives ISP degradation with Tailscale Services](/content/blog/blacksmith-x-tailscale/index.html) (Engineering, Dec 18, 2025)
- [The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer free](/content/blog/actions-pricing/index.html) (News, Dec 16, 2025)
- [How we SSH into GitHub Actions](/content/blog/ssh/index.html) (Product, Sep 9, 2025)
- [Reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache to make it fast](/content/blog/cache/index.html) (Product, Jul 23, 2025)
- [How we built a logging platform for GitHub Actions with ClickHouse](/content/blog/logging/index.html) (Product, Jul 2, 2025)