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Reddit cuts mobile CI build times by up to 50% and improves developer experience with Buildkite
Migrating iOS and Android builds to Buildkite gave Reddit faster pipelines, greater stability, and improved developer experience without increasing infrastructure costs or losing scalability.
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- Build times for both Android and iOS apps dropped by about 30%, while queue times fell from several minutes to around five seconds, accelerating delivery.
- Improved developer experience
- Replacing unwieldy 6,000-line YAML configs with small, reusable pipeline steps reduced friction for test sharding, log customization, and parallel execution of iOS and Android tests.
- Operational efficiency
- Git and container caching cut checkout times from minutes to 30–40 seconds, while automatic build cancellation prevented wasted compute runs and helped control workloads.
Elastic improves Kibana CI/CD run time by 70% after switching to Buildkite Pipelines
Elastic decreased pipeline run time from 3 hours to 55 minutes while improving developer experience and decreasing costs by migrating to Buildkite.
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- Cut cost
- Cloud infrastructure spend reduced by nearly three quarters.
- Accelerated build times
- CI/CD pipeline execution time decreased from 3 hours to 55 minutes.
- Improved productivity
- Developers have faster feedback loops, can troubleshoot independently, and spend more time on high-value work.
Accelerating Intercom’s development: harnessing Buildkite for rapid, reliable CI/CD
Intercom significantly improved developer productivity and deployment speed by using Buildkite, reducing test times from 25 minutes to 3 minutes and enabling 150 daily deployments with enhanced reliability and control.
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- ↘85%
- Reduction in test times
- 4,000,000
- Job minutes per month
How PagerDuty leverages Buildkite for 20% faster incident resolution
PagerDuty accelerated deployment and reduced incident resolution time by 20% with Buildkite.
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- 99%
- Percent of production builds on Buildkite
- 1,000,000
- Number of builds, Jan–Oct 2023
Swift CI shift: How REA Group reduced team setup time by 80% with Buildkite
Buildkite enabled REA Group to cut setup time from weeks to days, reduce ops overhead, and accelerate builds, empowering their engineering teams to innovate efficiently.
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- 120,000
- Builds per month
- ↘80%
- Reduction in team setup time
Shopify’s scaling success: dramatically reducing build times amidst massive engineering growth
Shopify, a leading global ecommerce platform, reduced build times to under 5 minutes, and grew its engineering team by 300% by switching to Buildkite.
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- 8,000
- Active pipelines
- 300,000,000
- Jobs run Jan–Oct 2023
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