Case Study: Mynewsdesk accelerates release cycles 6x with Semaphore

Mynewsdesk Accelerates Release Cycles by Using Semaphore for Continuous Deployment

Mynewsdesk, a web-based digital PR platform used by thousands of companies worldwide, needed to speed up a growing test suite that was slowing product releases. As their user base and features expanded, testing before each deployment became a bottleneck, and the team looked to Semaphore for a hosted CI/CD solution after other approaches proved hard to maintain.

Semaphore implemented automated testing and deployment with parallelized test splitting, Slack notifications, and one-click deployments to Heroku. The result was a major efficiency gain: Mynewsdesk cut test time from about one hour to around 10 minutes and was able to deploy at least 10 times per day, while also reducing manual deployment errors and improving release visibility.

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Nicolas MEDDA

Developer