Case Study: Alteryx achieves 6x faster builds and accelerated CI/CD with GitLab

GitLab gives Alteryx visibility to increase build speed

Alteryx, an end-to-end analytics platform provider in Irvine, California, was slowed by a legacy Subversion repository and a Jenkins-based pipeline that made builds and deployments slow and difficult to manage. After evaluating GitHub, Perforce, and GitLab, Alteryx selected GitLab—starting with the Community Edition and quickly moving to the Enterprise/Ultimate offering—to consolidate source control, CI/CD, code review and security into a single tool.

Using GitLab, Alteryx implemented integrated CI/CD pipelines (via GitLab YAML files) that tie commits and merge requests to automated builds and AWS deployments for integration and QA. The results: a Jenkins build that took 3 hours now runs in 30 minutes (a 6x improvement), planned user adoption more than doubled within six months, engineers gained visibility to debug pipelines, and release velocity increased substantially (9x more daily releases), delivering measurable acceleration across their development lifecycle.

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