The use case: how Axios deploys CircleCI
Axios replaced a self-managed Jenkins setup with CircleCI to build, test and deploy code across its products. It uses private orbs for a standardized deployment workflow and larger macOS resource classes and parallel test runs for faster builds and testing.
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In the space of about a year, Axios deployed 1,000 times using CircleCI
we can run 22 parallel sets of testing at the same time
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- Nov 12, 2026
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- Nov 12, 2026
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- The figure: 25%Checked
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- The passage quoted aboveChecked
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Recently we wanted to increase the size of our macOS [resource classes] about two times larger – going from medium to extra-large,” Duffy says. “We can just change one line in our config.yml file and say, ‘give us a 2X size,’ and then we can test it.