Case Study: Shopify reduces build times and scales CI with Buildkite

Shopify’s scaling success dramatically reducing build times amidst massive engineering growth

Shopify, a global commerce platform with a rapidly growing engineering team, needed to cut CI build times dramatically after outgrowing its previous hosted CI provider. As the company scaled from 300 to 900 engineers across multiple time zones, it faced the challenge of keeping build times under 10 minutes while supporting much higher demand.

Buildkite’s CI platform and agent-based architecture helped Shopify auto-scale build servers to match peak demand, running nearly 10,000 concurrent build agents and supporting a move from AWS to Google Cloud. With Buildkite, Shopify reduced build wait times by 75%, achieved 4x faster CI speed for the same budget, and brought build times down from 40 minutes to 10 minutes across core and mobile projects.

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