Case Study: BuzzFeed achieves faster deployments and stronger collaboration with GitHub

BuzzFeed stays on the pulse with GitHub and DevOps-ready workflows

BuzzFeed, the digital media publisher behind articles, quizzes, videos, and news, needed a more flexible infrastructure to replace manual deployments and reduce time spent on repetitive engineering tasks. Using GitHub Enterprise, BuzzFeed built a collaborative, DevOps-ready workflow across its distributed teams, including monorepos and shared access for developers and journalists.

GitHub helped BuzzFeed automate CI/CD, support innersourcing, and streamline incident response and security triage. The results included 30% more frequent deployments, sometimes up to 300 per day, faster outage resolution, and a drop in bug bounty triage time from weeks to days, while also freeing teams for higher-value work.

BuzzFeed

Andrew Mulholland

Director of Engineering