Case Study: REA Group achieves faster builds and 80% lower setup time with Buildkite

How REA Group reduced team setup time by 80% with Buildkite

REA Group, a multinational digital advertising business focused on property, needed a better way to support its 550 engineers. Before Buildkite, the team relied on a mix of build systems spread across more than a dozen clusters, creating high maintenance costs, bottlenecks, and slow setup times for new build pipelines.

Using Buildkite with AWS and Docker, REA Group replaced several Jenkins and Bamboo CI installations with an autoscaling stack that centralized operations and gave teams more autonomy. The result was faster builds, tighter feedback loops, easier adoption of new tools, and an 80% reduction in team setup time, with Buildkite now powering most builds across the organization.

REA Group

Tomas Varsavsky

Chief Engineer