Case Study: AppDynamics achieves reliable, ephemeral macOS builds with MacStadium Orka

AppDynamics cuts build cleanup by 20% with MacStadium

AppDynamics, a market leader in application performance management, was struggling with its on-premise Mac mini infrastructure, which suffered from network instability, machine state alterations, and management headaches across different teams. Their challenge was to centralize management and find a virtualization platform to streamline their global build and release engineering. This led them to the vendor MacStadium and its Orka platform.

MacStadium's solution, Orka, provided a virtualization layer that allowed AppDynamics to run builds on ephemeral agents. This shift resolved an immediate crisis caused by a data center overheating and provided long-term benefits. The results included the elimination of infrastructure-related downtime, faster and completely reproducible builds that saved engineers significant time, and secure, scalable access from anywhere in the world.

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