Case study

CirlceCI attracts more customers with their optimized CI/CD platform

  • Business/Productivity Software
  • Software Engineering
Platform maintenance and improvement case study - N-iX
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Location:
USA
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Industry:
Business/Productivity Software
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Partnership period:
July 2024 - present
Client background Client background

CircleCI is a leading provider of a best-in-class continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that enables teams to deliver software faster and more efficiently.

Business challenge Business challenge

The client needed to improve and maintain over 80 CircleCI orb repositories based on a diverse technology stack (Python, Java, Elixir, etc.) and legacy systems.

ImplementationImplementation

N-iX helped the client maintain and enhance their CircleCI orbs—reusable configuration packages that enable DevOps engineers to quickly and easily create and set up CI/CD pipelines. We performed a comprehensive review and analysis of open-source contributions to ensure the orbs’ top quality.

Our software engineers helped prioritize orbs based on usage metrics, the technology they are based on, and customer requests. The highest priority was given to orbs related to cloud providers and the most used programming languages.

We also created and optimized Windows configurations and Docker images. These are used within CircleCI’s own infrastructure and are also part of the services they offer to customers.

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Value delivered by N-iXValue delivered

By entrusting N-iX with the maintenance of CircleCI orbs, the client gained several important advantages:

  • Ensured the reliability of over 80 orb repositories with proficient maintenance, regardless of the technology they are based on;
  • Increased customer satisfaction by enhancing orb quality and optimizing Windows servers and Docker images.
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Let them leverage their expertise and resources to guide you along in the process. Put a lot of trust in their capabilities.

Nathan Fish
Group Product Manager, CircleCI
Expertise delivered:
Technologies:
CircleCI, YAML, Bash scripts
10+

years on the market

600+

employees

USD 50M+

annual revenue

80+

orbs maintained and enhanced

Created and optimized

Windows configurations and Docker images

Comprehensive assessment

of open-source contributions

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