Depot
Depot is a B2B company specializing in engineering, product, and design, known for its cloud-accelerated Docker container builds. It operates from Montpellier, London, and remotely, serving clients like PostHog and Appsmith with advanced technology solutions.
Overview of Depot
Depot is a B2B company specializing in the Engineering, Product, and Design sub-industries. Founded by Kyle and Jacob, former staff engineers at Thorn and Era Software, Depot is part of Y Combinator's W23 batch. With a team size of three, the company has locations in Montpellier, Occitanie, France, and London, England, United Kingdom, as well as offering remote positions. Depot is notable for building Docker containers significantly faster, saving various companies numerous hours of build time daily.
Locations and Team Structure
Depot operates from Montpellier, Occitanie, France and London, England, United Kingdom, in addition to providing fully remote work options. The company employs a small but focused team of three members. This geographical flexibility allows Depot to leverage talent from various regions, including France, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.
Technological Capabilities
Depot delivers cloud-accelerated container builds up to 40 times faster from any terminal or existing CI provider. The company deploys high-performance machines equipped with 16 CPUs, 32GiB of memory, and a fully managed, persistent 50GiB NVMe cache SSD. The servers run on fast Xeon Scalable Ice Lake Intel and AWS Graviton3 Arm processors. Depot supports native CPUs for varied platforms such as AWS Graviton and Apple Silicon, providing fine-grained distributed caching accessible from CI and team’s local machines.
Client Integration and Benefits
Depot is utilized by leading companies like PostHog, Better Stack, Appsmith, and Novu to dramatically cut down build times, potentially saving tens of hours each day. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing CI providers, infrastructure-as-code, and compute platforms, offering a highly efficient and time-saving solution for businesses.
