Case Study: The Browser Company achieves 50% faster CI pipelines and dramatically faster, more reliable tests with Datadog

The Browser Company uses Datadog to accelerate release velocity with fast, reliable CI

The Browser Company builds Arc, a re‑imagined browser that helps users organize tabs and workflows. As the team expanded across Mac, Windows, and iOS, CI/CD became a bottleneck: flaky tests, unreliable self‑hosted GitHub Actions runners, and PR pipelines that often took over an hour, forcing engineers into manual intervention and context switching.

To fix this, they implemented Datadog CI Visibility, Test Visibility, and Infrastructure Monitoring on their runners to pinpoint slow tests and failing machines and make data‑driven repairs. The result: average pipeline time dropped from 1 hour to 30 minutes (50% faster), a blocking test suite went from 5 minutes to 10 seconds, failure rates declined, and PR checks now often complete before reviewers respond—significantly improving engineering velocity.

The Browser Company

Andrew Monshizadeh

Software Engineer