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# Why CI Deserves Its Own Infrastructure


- **Date:** Friday, Sep 25, 2026
- **Time:** 12:20–12:50 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 6
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

A technical talk focused on why CI needs dedicated infrastructure. A high-level architecture talk about scheduling and caching - from describing customer workloads (volume, spikes, storage needs) to solutions - predictability, scheduling and custom storage.

## Speaker

### [Piotr Bejda](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@piotr-bejda)

Member of Technical Staff at Blacksmith ️


## Related talks at this congress

- [Application-Defined Compute: Rethinking Infrastructure for AI Applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1836-application-defined) — Anurag Goel
- [Managing GPUs by Just Asking, Infrastructure in the Age of MCP](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1812-managing-gpus-by) — Jessica Garson Beauchemin
- [Why Infrastructure Forecasting Fails – Building a Self-Serve Forecasting Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1751-why-infrastructure) — Ankur Gupta
- [Speed up your CI/CD pipelines by caching build & runtime artifacts](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1750-speed-up-your-ci-cd) — Thijs Feryn

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## Links

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