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Utilizing Incredibuild Cloud on Azure DevOps builds provided Minitab with the scalability and cost-efficiency that were missing in their previous implementation. Inevitably, machines were idle at certain points of the day.” This prevented any cost savings achieved by scaling down. “Because we have engineers working and triggering builds in the middle of the night and throughout the weekends, we were running 24 hours a day.
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“We originally started with our own cloud infrastructure for Incredibuild”, said Chad Shaffer, Senior Software Development System Engineer at Minitab. The revolutionary Incredibuild Cloud offering allowed Minitab to optimize their cloud resources to occupy the exact number of cores needed to boost performance, thus highly reducing the involved costs: However, w ithout a dedicated cloud offering, they found themselves with limited ways to scale up without extra cost and upfront investment. To reduce this burden, Minitab began adopting a cloud solution, shifting their CI infrastructure to Azure and utilizing Incredibuild along with it. All this created extra overhead for the IT and development teams that, even with a specialized role managing equipment, consumed a lot of the team’s time. Like many companies, Minitab found itself with a growing equipment infrastructure that required setup, licensing, storage, maintenance and monitoring. This ultimately supported faster development and iteration cycles. It could then isolate changes that introduced bugs and delivered immediate feedback to the development team. This time reduction supported its move to Continuous Integration.
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Minitab’s extensive suite of automated tests were optimized to take full advantage of Incredibuild’s power, which helped reduce the overnight process to minutes. Implementing Incredibuild was also an instrumental part in Minitab transforming its nightly build process into a continuous integration (CI) process.
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Incredibuild running on 100 machines proved to be very effective in supporting Minitab’s development optimization goals. Developers were able to iterate through changes more quickly. Incremental builds, which are very frequent, also got a significant performance boost. The build times were reduced to just 20 minutes, saving around 12 hours of build time every day. Over a decade ago, in the quest to optimize its build times, Minitab turned to Incredibuild.