Case Study: Dollar Shave Club achieves rapid feature launches and reliable testing with CircleCI

Launch major features rapidly, and with ease

Dollar Shave Club, a rapidly growing men’s grooming subscription service, needed to move faster without sacrificing quality. Engineers were running tests locally and fighting a heavily burdened Jenkins server, so they often ran only single spec files instead of full suites — which increased the risk of regressions and slowed feature delivery.

By adopting CircleCI’s AWS-based platform with Docker support for web and iOS, DSC automated full test-suite runs on every commit, simplified setup and maintenance, and got immediate feedback on failures. This enabled rapid, reliable launches of major features like gifting, subscriptions, and promotions, reduced CI overhead, and raised the team’s confidence in their test results.

Dollar Shave Club

Jason Bosco

VP of Engineering