SimplePractice decreases total build time by 15-20% & CI Costs by 25%

  • ⛔️️ CI/CD feedback loop speed was insufficient
  • ⛔️ Lack of flexibility in building fully configurable deployment pipelines
  • βœ… Decreased total build time by around 20%
  • βœ… Applied a fully configurable build/deploy pipeline

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The Challenge

SimplePractice was looking for a platform that supports parallelism and the ability to manually deploy a particular branch to a particular server with a 100% configurable build/deploy pipeline.

They were also looking for ways to optimize and decrease their build time since long feedback loops are frustrating for the development team.

As a part of this quest for optimization and speed, they started using parallel_tests Ruby gem for a year or so before they discovered Semaphore Boosters.

The Solution

Their main challenge with the parallel_tests gem they had was that it was tricky to set up efficient balancing with it. However, when they discovered Semaphore Boosters, one of the obvious benefits was that they didn’t have to worry about setting anything up and the parallel test balanced pretty neatly with zero configuration.

The Results

Semaphore Boosters decreased total build time by around 15-20% comparing to using parallel_tests in β€œgroup by file size” mode. Since the development team has been already using parallel testing it was a very nice surprise to see that it can be done even more efficiently with Semaphore Boosters.

Industry

Healthcare

Engineering team

20+ developers

Stack

Ruby on Rails

Ember.js

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