Buildfarm
Saw this at NVIDIA, I believe as part of Bazel.
Resources
A build farm is a collection of servers used to compile and build software code automatically. It’s essential for continuous integration, allowing for code to be tested and deployed more efficiently.
I first ran into this at NVIDIA. And this is basically the whole mechanism behind apt.
Have you ever asked yourself, where are the packages actually fetched from?
If you take a second to look at what you are actually doing when installing ROS,
They ask you to add a
sudo apt update && sudo apt install curl -y
sudo curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key -o /usr/share/keyrings/ros-archive-keyring.gpg