Case Study: Chipper Cash cuts testing time from 24 hours to 5 minutes with Release

Chipper Cash cuts testing time from ~24 hours to 5 minutes with Release

Chipper Cash, a financial technology company serving millions across Africa, faced significant collaboration and testing bottlenecks due to its remote-first, global engineering team. Their previous single staging environment in Heroku caused developers to wait in line for days to test changes, creating a major backlog and slowing feature releases. They needed a solution to provide isolated test environments that were natively integrated with their source code to reduce risk and increase developer efficiency.

Release implemented its ephemeral environments for Chipper Cash, providing each engineer with their own isolated test environment hosted in AWS. This allowed developers to work asynchronously, test changes quickly via pull requests, and view code snapshots in their dashboards. With Release, Chipper Cash cut its testing time from approximately 24 hours down to about 5 minutes, enabling faster feature releases and significantly improved cross-team collaboration.

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