Truly cloud-native artifact management for Skyscanner
Skyscanner’s "you build it, you run it" culture requires tools that scale with the explosive demand for global travel. Cloudsmith provides a genuinely cloud-native artifact management platform that removes infrastructure headaches and accelerates global delivery.
How Cloudsmith can work with Skyscanner
- Eliminate engineering maintenance toilFree your platform engineers from the burden of patching artifact servers and managing HA clusters. Shift their focus back to high-impact "Catalyst" initiatives that drive traveler value.
- Accelerate global build velocityReplace manual module caching and S3 workarounds with a global Package Delivery Network (PDN). Serve artifacts at the edge to cut build times across your 150+ module targets.
- Professionalize public artifact distributionDeliver open source projects like Backpack through a branded, polished portal using Public Broadcasts. Provide a developer-friendly UI for travel partners with zero infrastructure requirements.
- Secure the automated supply chainarden your GitHub Actions pipelines with native OIDC support. Use Rego-based policies to automatically block malicious dependencies before they ever reach a developer’s workspace.
Why Cloudsmith?
The missing piece of your cloud-native stack
You process 1.5 billion daily API requests. Your artifact repository should be as elastic as your compute. Cloudsmith aligns with Skyscanner's goal to reduce cognitive load and technical debt.
Universal registry for Backpack
Consolidate your design system into a single source of truth. We provide native support for npm, Maven, and CocoaPods, ensuring cross-platform consistency for web and mobile squads.
Branded portals for the community
Use Public Broadcasts to showcase Skyscanner’s design language to the world. Build trust with a custom-branded portal that offers built-in analytics to track adoption across your 110+ market domains.
Genuinely cloud-native by design
Cloudsmith is built with the same AWS-first DNA as Skyscanner. We handle the elastic scaling and distributed storage logic so your CI pipelines just work, regardless of request volume.
Invisible scaling and reliability
Stop worrying about 503 SlowDown errors during build bursts. Our serverless architecture absorbs massive ingestion spikes from your microservices, supporting your decentralized accountability model.
Switch to Cloudsmith
Built for the future of travel
Compare the operational weight of self-hosted binary repositories with the efficiency of a managed service that supports your global scale and "shift left" security goals.
Your current solutionPatching JFrog Artifactory and managing S3-backed storage backends.
With CloudsmithGenuinely cloud-native SaaS that scales with your traveler demand.
Your current solutionBuilding and maintaining custom download pages for public-facing artifacts.
With CloudsmithBranded Public Broadcast portals set up in seconds with zero maintenance.
Your current solutionRisks created by long-lived AWS Access Key secrets in CI environments.
With CloudsmithNative OIDC support for secure, passwordless authentication.
Your current solutionHidden costs in storage, egress, and engineering hours spent on maintenance.
With CloudsmithPredictable, transparent pricing that supports your FinOps mandates
Solving the module caching bottleneck
Your engineers shouldn't spend their time building custom scripts to zip build outputs for S3. Cloudsmith acts as a high-performance buffering layer, absorbing the massive ingestion spikes from your modular iOS architecture. By moving to Cloudsmith's global Package Delivery Network, you cut the latency that currently forces your mobile squads to wait on builds.
- Artifact management that scales elastically with your needs
- Eliminate the "leaky abstraction" of manual S3 caching
- Reduced latency for global squads via edge-based distribution
Empowering the DevEx mandate
Skyscanner’s culture values balancing technical logic with creative problem-solving. Maintaining artifact servers consumes mental stamina. Automating that maintenance with Cloudsmith frees your Developer Experience engineers to focus on the work of innovation, making your squads more productive and satisfied.
- Standardized artifact workflows for over 300 microservices
- Track community adoption of open source tools with Public Broadcast analytics
- API-first architecture that integrates with Terraform and AWS CDK
The security and governance enabler
You prioritize the intersection of development and security. Cloudsmith supports this by eliminating secret sprawl, enforcing upstream proxying, and providing visibility into your software supply chain. Get a true view of your security standing and ensure only verified, policy-compliant packages reach production.
- Rego-based policy-as-code to interpret threat signals automatically
- Automated SBOM generation for every package and container
- Integrated vulnerability scanning updated multiple times per hour
Let's talk Artifact Management
Hi Team Skyscanner,
I’ve been following your engineering blog, specifically your journey toward effective observability and your "Open Source first" approach to building infrastructure. It’s clear that Skyscanner is building a world-class platform on a genuinely cloud-native foundation.
However, many leading teams still anchor their modern AWS stack with legacy artifact tools that require constant maintenance. This creates "maintenance toil" that contradicts your mission of reducing cognitive load for your squads.
Cloudsmith is built with the same cloud-native DNA as your stack. We can help you professionalize the distribution of projects like Backpack using our new Public Broadcasts, while freeing up your platform teams to focus on doubling ad revenue and optimizing the traveler experience.
Let’s chat about how we can help you stop patching servers and start shipping.
Speak soon,
Alex
I’ve been following your engineering blog, specifically your journey toward effective observability and your "Open Source first" approach to building infrastructure. It’s clear that Skyscanner is building a world-class platform on a genuinely cloud-native foundation.
However, many leading teams still anchor their modern AWS stack with legacy artifact tools that require constant maintenance. This creates "maintenance toil" that contradicts your mission of reducing cognitive load for your squads.
Cloudsmith is built with the same cloud-native DNA as your stack. We can help you professionalize the distribution of projects like Backpack using our new Public Broadcasts, while freeing up your platform teams to focus on doubling ad revenue and optimizing the traveler experience.
Let’s chat about how we can help you stop patching servers and start shipping.
Speak soon,
Alex