Case Study: Checkmarx achieves major cost savings and developer autonomy with Port

Checkmarx cuts developer environment costs by 97% with Port

Checkmarx, a cybersecurity software company, faced significant inefficiencies and high costs from managing developer environments. A bottleneck of DevOps support tickets and five different environment creation approaches slowed workflows, reduced developer autonomy, and led to expensive, always-on AWS resources. This prompted the DevOps team lead to seek a new solution, which led them to the vendor Port and its internal developer portal.

By implementing Port's internal developer portal, Checkmarx established self-service actions for developers to create and destroy environments with Time-to-Live settings, ensuring they were not left running indefinitely. This solution provided developer autonomy with guardrails, standardized processes, and automated terminations. As a result, Checkmarx achieved a 97% infrastructure cost savings, reducing environment costs from hundreds of thousands of dollars to just thousands, and saw an 80% reduction in its deployment process time.

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