Case Study: Shopify achieves under 5-minute build times with Buildkite

Shopify cuts build times by 75% with Buildkite

Shopify, a leading global ecommerce platform, was facing significant scaling challenges with its previous hosted CI provider. Their build times had stretched to 40 minutes, and they needed to reduce this to under 10 minutes to support a planned 300% growth of their engineering team.

By switching to Buildkite, Shopify implemented an auto-scaling solution for their build servers. This allowed them to run nearly 10,000 concurrent build agents, dramatically reducing their core application's build times to under 5 minutes. Buildkite's agent architecture also provided a larger compute capacity for the same cost and facilitated a smooth cloud transition, enabling Shopify to maintain its performance targets despite massive team growth.

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