Solano Labs

“Knowing that we wanted to stop managing our own CI environment, we went looking to CI service providers (hosted, and self-hosted) to see how they would perform. TL;DR We’re glad we switched. Now that our tests are run via [Solano CI], we’ve phased-out our Jenkins setup, and the testing queue has been all but eliminated. We ended up with a setup that allowed three builds going at once, and that seems like the sweet-spot for us with builds taking about five minutes apiece.”

“At BigCommerce we rely on Solano Labs for continuous integration and we are happy we went this route. We explored many other options including maintaining our own CI machines but Solano CI outweighed all of them for a number of reasons. There are several features that Solano CI provides that has greatly improved the engineering team’s efficiency.”

“The biggest reason we switched to Solano CI was, in a phrase, “coffee time.” The Solano Labs team encouraged me to think about what my team could do if we could get our build and test results back in the time it takes to get a cup of coffee, and intrigued, I challenged them to show me that Solano CI could make that happen. The system’s automated scheduling and parallelism were impressive, and between my conceptual understanding of setting up through a YAML config file and Solano’s docs I got most of the way by myself. But the biggest win, and the reason we decided to buy, was their team’s support.”