Case Study: Coinbase halves merge-to-deploy time and boosts developer throughput with CircleCI

Circleci Enterprise Safely and Reliably Runs a Complex Workload for Coinbase

Coinbase, a leading bitcoin company, needed a secure, reliable CI solution that could run behind its firewall to meet strict security and compliance for over 40 projects across its infrastructure, web, and exchange teams (team of 200+). Their previous SaaS CI didn’t satisfy risk requirements and testing/deployments consumed a large portion of IT effort, slowing merge-to-deploy times and developer velocity.

By deploying CircleCI Enterprise on-premises, Coinbase optimized and parallelized its test suite, auto-balanced test runs across nodes, and scaled its CI cluster and workflows while deploying to AWS (Ruby/Node stacks). The change cut average time from merge to deploy in half, reduced CI ops from ~50% of one person’s time to under an hour per week, and increased developer throughput by 20%.

Coinbase

Rob Witoff

Director