Case Study: FamilySearch achieves release cycle reduction from months to minutes with CloudBees CD

FamilySearch Changed their Release Cycle from Months to Minutes with CloudBees CD

FamilySearch.org, a large application made up of many products developed by hundreds of geographically distributed Agile engineers, struggled with a complex build and test toolchain (Maven, JUnit, TestNG, Selenium) and virtualized/cloud deployments. Those manual, error-prone processes meant code changes routinely took up to three months to reach production, preventing the team from realizing Agile benefits.

By adopting CloudBees CD to automate the end-to-end delivery pipeline across 30+ applications, FamilySearch achieved Continuous Delivery with shared visibility and control across development, testing, and packaging tools. The result: commit-to-production cycles shortened from months to about 10 minutes, fewer process errors, higher software quality through faster user feedback, consistent best practices across teams, and more efficient, centrally maintained release operations.

Family Search

Bob Hartley

Development Manager