Case Study: REA Group reduces team setup time by 80% with Buildkite

REA Group reduces team setup time by 80% with Buildkite

REA Group, a multinational digital advertising business specializing in property, faced challenges with a fragmented mix of build systems. This setup created high maintenance costs and bottlenecks, preventing their engineering teams from having autonomy. They needed a solution to leverage their AWS and Docker expertise, which led them to the vendor Buildkite.

Buildkite provided a solution where REA Group implemented an autoscaling stack using Buildkite, AWS, and Docker. This replaced multiple Jenkins and Bamboo CI installations. The results were significant, including an 80% reduction in new team setup time, which dropped from weeks to days. Buildkite also helped centralize their cluster to reduce ops overhead, accelerate builds, and provide tighter feedback loops, empowering teams to innovate.

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