Case Study: Confluent Accelerates CI/CD by 70% with Semaphore

Confluent cuts CI/CD time by 70% with Semaphore

Confluent, a company offering a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka, sought to unify its CI/CD processes under a single platform to reduce maintenance overhead and streamline the developer experience. They were juggling multiple systems and chose to migrate from Jenkins to the vendor Semaphore, starting with their complex packaging and release pipelines for the Confluent Platform.

Semaphore's solution involved a complete redesign of the pipelines using principles like modularization, parallelism, and built-in artifact caching. This transformation, supported by improved automation and monitoring, led to dramatic results. Confluent achieved a 70% reduction in packaging build times, a 75% faster release duration, and used 50% fewer resources, significantly accelerating their CI/CD workflows.

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