Case Study: Plaid cuts CI build times 50% with EngFlow

Plaid cuts CI build times by 50% with EngFlow

Plaid, Inc., a financial technology company, faced significant challenges with its continuous integration (CI) pipeline. Their large Go monorepo, containing over 150 services, suffered from slow CI build times and a large, shared container image that was a critical operational bottleneck, hindering developer productivity.

To solve this, Plaid partnered with EngFlow to implement a co-managed remote cache service deployed within their own AWS environment. By migrating their build system to Bazel with EngFlow's support, Plaid achieved a 50% reduction in CI build times, sped up local development builds by 5x, and reduced container image sizes by 90%. EngFlow's solution provided the performance and security benefits of a remote cache without the operational burden.

Plaid, Inc