GitHub Actions Benchmark

PostHog

PostHog is an open-source product analytics suite, built for engineers. Automatically track every event on your website or app, understand your users and how to improve your product, deploy on your own infrastructure to keep control of your data.

With depot build, the past 10 runs were

14.7x faster

saving a total of

9h 50m 28s

compared to docker build.

About the benchmark

For every commit to PostHog/posthog, GitHub Actions runs one workflow job building the project with the docker/build-push-action action and caching enabled and one workflow job building the project with depot build. The time each job takes is recorded and visualized here.

Last 10 GitHub Actions Runs

feat(dashboards): add delete_tile endpoint and dashboard-delete-tile MCP tool (#60520)

5 days ago

Depot

3m 52s / 22.9x faster

Docker

1h 28m 30s

feat(tasks): emit pr analytics events for external PRs (#60719)

fix(data-warehouse): redact API key credentials from request logs (#60599)

5 days ago

Depot

3m 40s / 15.2x faster

Docker

55m 42s

chore(devex): register canonical /api/projects/ route for env-only endpoints (#60407)

5 days ago

Depot

3m 30s / 27.3x faster

Docker

1h 35m 41s

fix(modeling): fix generic delta errors and s3 fnf errors from empty queryable tables (#60688)

chore(hog-charts): group BarChart bar options under `bars` config (#60820)

5 days ago

Depot

4m 49s / 11.4x faster

Docker

55m 9s

fix(sharing): stub embed preview iframe in storybook snapshots (#60810)

5 days ago

Depot

4m 54s / 15.9x faster

Docker

1h 18m 3s

feat(heatmaps): pass deploy region to browserless rollout flag (#60818)

5 days ago

Depot

4m 29s / 10.7x faster

Docker

47m 55s

fix(retention): show all series values in the chart tooltip (#60768)

5 days ago

Depot

4m 44s / 11.5x faster

Docker

54m 35s

feat(replay): pin a primary property from the session replay inspector (#60812)

5 days ago

Depot

4m 21s / 14.8x faster

Docker

1h 4m 20s

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Docker Workflow

jobs:
benchmark-docker:
name: Build with Docker
runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v2
- uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
with:
tags: depot/benchmark-posthog:benchmark
cache-from: type=gha
cache-to: type=gha,mode=max

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Depot Workflow

jobs:
benchmark-depot:
name: Build with Depot
runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- uses: depot/setup-action@v1
- uses: depot/build-push-action@v1
with:
tags: depot/benchmark-posthog:benchmark

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