Avrea Blog

CI/CD insights, engineering deep dives, and product updates from the Avrea team.

21 April 2026

Benchmark: Linux kernel builds 68x faster on Avrea than GitHub Actions

27m 23s on GitHub Actions. 9m 3s on Avrea without cache. 24 seconds with ccache warm. That's 3x from the hardware, 68x once the cache kicks in.

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Leo Lännenmäki

Benchmark: RisingWave builds 11.5x faster on Avrea than GitHub Actions

21m 40s on GitHub Actions. 10m 48s on Avrea without cache. 1m 52s with a warm sccache. That's 2x from the hardware, 11.5x once caching kicks in.

Leo Lännenmäki

Benchmark: Kafka builds 6.6x faster on Avrea than GitHub Actions

5m 44s on GitHub Actions. 2m 10s on Avrea without cache. 52 seconds with Gradle's remote cache. That's 2.6x from the hardware, 6.6x once caching kicks in.

Leo Lännenmäki

Benchmark: Bazel builds 39.7x faster on Avrea than GitHub Actions

37m 10s on GitHub Actions. 14m 4s on Avrea without cache. 56 seconds with cache. That's 2.6x from the hardware, 39.7x once caching kicks in.