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Case Study: How Split Payments took builds from 15 minutes to 2.5 on Semaphore

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Key facts · TL;DR

Company

Split Payments

Industry

Fintech

Challenge

Slow, costly builds on prior CI

Headline result

Split Payments cut build times from 15 minutes to 2.5 with parallelization, at lower cost than CircleCI

Key results

Faster builds

15 min to 2.5 min

The challenge

Split Payments, a fintech, ran 15-minute builds on its prior CI provider and wanted faster builds without higher cost.

The solution

Split Payments moved to Semaphore and parallelized its builds.

“It's faster, more reliable and cheaper. A very rare combination.”
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Trevor Wistaff
CTO, Split Payments

The results, in context

Split Payments reported build times dropping from 15 minutes to 2.5 minutes with parallelization, at a cost still lower than CircleCI. Figures are quoted from Semaphore's published story and dated September 14, 2020.

Products used

Semaphore CI/CD pipelinesSemaphore Parallel jobs