Case Study: Wealthsimple cuts staging deployments nearly in half with Signadot

Wealthsimple cuts weekly staging deployments by nearly 50% with Signadot

Wealthsimple, a major Canadian online financial institution, faced significant challenges with its shared staging environment used for microservice testing. This environment was unstable, slow, and caused cross-contamination between developers' tests, becoming a bottleneck that hindered their engineering velocity. To solve this, they turned to Signadot, a platform that provides isolated Kubernetes sandbox environments.

By implementing Signadot, Wealthsimple provided its developers with fast, on-demand, and isolated sandboxes for testing. This solution integrated seamlessly with their internal tooling and Backstage, creating a frictionless workflow. The results were substantial: weekly deployments to the problematic staging environment dropped by nearly 50%, from 260 to 134. This eliminated staging conflicts, drastically improved stability, and provided developers with faster, more reliable feedback on their code changes.

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