Case Study: Meltwater scales CI to 1200 pipelines daily with Harness CI

Meltwater Runs 1200 Pipelines Per Day With Harness CI

Meltwater, a company that helps organizations make better decisions using outside-in data insights, was struggling with outdated Jenkins-based continuous integration pipelines. Their Jenkins instances lacked autoscaling, caused build queues, and were difficult to maintain, while teams increasingly turned to separate CI tools like TravisCI and CircleCI. As Meltwater moved to Kubernetes, those external tools also created security concerns, making a new on-premise CI solution necessary. Harness CI was the product considered to replace the fragmented setup.

Meltwater implemented Harness CI to support its Kubernetes migration and simplify pipeline management. With Harness, developer adoption rose 3x to 222 developers, representing 50% of the organization, and the team now runs 1,200 pipelines per day. Harness CI also increased repo automation from 60% to 75% and reduced cloud infrastructure costs through autoscaling, while giving Meltwater a flexible, scalable CI platform.

Meltwater

Jim Sheldon

Principle Software Engineer