rwx run - development without the push and pull

CI/CD
Nov 20, 2025
Jordan Sanders
rwx run - development without the push and pull

Most "continuous integration" workflows aren't truly continuous.

You make a change locally, commit, push, wait for CI to pull, wait for CI to build, and wait for CI to finally validate. CI is designed to run after your development has reached a conclusion, not during your exploration, iteration, and debugging.

We built RWX to fully integrate CI/CD with your development workflow.

Beginning with version v2, rwx run can now launch a build directly from your terminal - local code changes included:

By syncing your local changes directly to your build environment, rwx run makes it easy to iterate quickly. You can:

How does it work?

RWX is built on top of OverlayFS to enable Docker-like caching. That means CI steps with identical file systems running identical commands don't need to re-run on every build. rwx run takes full advantage of this caching to skip expensive tasks like git clone, dependency installs, and other upstream steps.

When you run rwx run, the CLI determines where your local repository has diverged from its remote and constructs a patch file.

Subsequent builds start at the git patch application. Steps that haven't changed — including cloning your repository and all upstream tasks — are pulled from the cache.

You get immediate feedback, even on large projects. You can iterate frictionlessly, without waiting for full rebuilds or CI pipelines to catch up.

Give it a try!

RWX is CI/CD that's truly continuous and integrated. You can use it as part of your active development workflow today.

We'll be at AWS re:Invent Booth 1958 from December 1-5. If you're around, please stop by!

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