Case Study: Thrivent achieves scalable, reliable CI/CD with Cloudsmith

Thrivent cuts artifact-management incidents by 62% with Cloudsmith

Thrivent, a Fortune 500 financial services company, faced significant challenges with an unreliable, on-premise artifact server that created bottlenecks and security risks for its 900+ developers. Their legacy infrastructure was unable to handle the scale and concurrency required for their CI/CD workflows, leading to slow build times and operational overhead. This prompted their search for a new solution, leading them to the Cloudsmith artifact management platform.

By implementing Cloudsmith's fully-managed, cloud-native platform, Thrivent consolidated its fragmented tools into a unified repository. The solution provided high-concurrency pipelines, multi-format support, and streamlined automation, which eliminated previous bottlenecks. The results for Thrivent included handling over 49 million monthly downloads, a 62% reduction in incidents, predictable pricing, and a substantial decrease in operational overhead, allowing developers to focus on delivering features rather than maintaining infrastructure.

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