The use case: how Honeycomb deploys CircleCI
Honeycomb uses CircleCI's Arm compute as its CI/CD service to build, test and deploy code on AWS Graviton2 instances. This lets the team build multi-architecture Docker images natively and ship them to production.
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Before adopting Graviton2, Honeycomb had already reduced its build and test cycle time averages from 20-30 minutes down to 10 minutes by leveraging CircleCI’s support for parallelism.
Deploying Arm-based applications to Graviton2 enables the Honeycomb team to increase their computational capacity up to 5x within their existing infrastructure.
In addition, improving build and test speeds by more than 50%, and using a CI/CD managed service has reduced the cost of Honeycomb’s highest expense items: engineers and management.
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Adopting Graviton2 and CircleCI enabled the team to cut its AWS EC2 compute costs by 50%. In addition, improving build and test speeds by more than 50%, and using a CI/CD managed service has reduced the cost of Honeycomb’s highest expense items: engineers and management.