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Works great for small sized team of up to 25 engineers
What do you like best about the product?
Basically the easiest thing to get started on, aside from Travis.
The iOS testing ability is great too.
Pricing is clear, and dynamic, you can change containers up and down every hour.
Performance is good, if you know how to parallelize and script things.
Artifact retention is great.
Awesome github integration.
The iOS testing ability is great too.
Pricing is clear, and dynamic, you can change containers up and down every hour.
Performance is good, if you know how to parallelize and script things.
Artifact retention is great.
Awesome github integration.
What do you dislike about the product?
Had some real downtimes over the last 16 months, pretty disappointed when the dev team got stuck.
Random flakiness with the container dying for no reason, had to manually rebuild.
Paralleilization infrastructure is not great compared to TravisCI, it locks containers into stages and doesn't work like a fluid work queue.
Lack of matrix build support means it can't support large scale projects.
Random flakiness with the container dying for no reason, had to manually rebuild.
Paralleilization infrastructure is not great compared to TravisCI, it locks containers into stages and doesn't work like a fluid work queue.
Lack of matrix build support means it can't support large scale projects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Trying to keep our engineering team productive and shipping code quickly.
Easy to get started and flexible enough.
Easy to get started and flexible enough.
CircleCI is a huge help to quickly bootstrap any project with Continuous Integration
What do you like best about the product?
CircleCI is able to configure build automatically for most popular stacks like Java, Python, Node.js, etc.
At the same time, custom configuration can be added easily any time.
At the same time, custom configuration can be added easily any time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Docker support isn't great, but they're trying to fix it with CircleCI 2.0 (currently in beta).
Outages happen (but rarely) and it's really hard to understand why some of the builds are suddenly slow.
Outages happen (but rarely) and it's really hard to understand why some of the builds are suddenly slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Iteration speed
- Time to ship a single feature
- Continuous Integration / Delivery
- Time to ship a single feature
- Continuous Integration / Delivery
We love CircleCI
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use, pretty reliable, pretty customizable
What do you dislike about the product?
We think the dependency caching/cache restoring is slow
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reliable testing, continuous integration
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get dockerized
Solid product, decent support
What do you like best about the product?
CircleCI does what it says, 99% of the time. I mean that in the best way possible. Testing is a tough business with a lot of things prone to go wrong either in the software or the infrastructure supporting the software. While we do occasionally get a false negative, our overall experience with CircleCI is very positive.
We've contacted their support on several occasions, they've been prompt and helpful. Their user forum is also active and useful.
We've contacted their support on several occasions, they've been prompt and helpful. Their user forum is also active and useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
The false negatives we get on occasion. But not very often.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ensure that our code base do not go sideways with respect to our test suites.
Overall positive experience
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, from github integration and the automatic detection of projects to connecting via ssh to machines.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think this isn't about the service so much, as my ability to use it but I haven't been too successful getting react native to work yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continuous integration is my primary use case, and I have realized a lot of confidence in the overall process of my development.
I look forward to integrating results more closely with github.
I look forward to integrating results more closely with github.
CircleCI is awesome for start-up
What do you like best about the product?
- easy to use and setup
- comprehensive documentation
- no effort on maintenance (unlike self-host solution)
- a good default setup (eg. pre-installed MySQL, PgSQL)
- comprehensive documentation
- no effort on maintenance (unlike self-host solution)
- a good default setup (eg. pre-installed MySQL, PgSQL)
What do you dislike about the product?
- Docker support is limited (not support Docker 1.12 yet)
- Lack of customized setting to the build machine (eg. more RAM, more CPU core, custom build runner image)
- Lack of customized setting to the build machine (eg. more RAM, more CPU core, custom build runner image)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We picked CircleCI when we build our CC pipeline. It turns out the CircleCI has strong integration to GitHub, Slack, etc. And it also allows custom integration and it makes our CD pipeline more completed
Recommendations to others considering the product:
- CircleCI is the best for startup and small team without dedicated role for DevOps
Consistent.
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility of build steps, ease of configuration.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface can be a bit unpredictable at times, and sometimes lags/freezes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use CircleCI for continuous integration and deployments. After a pull request is merged, CircleCI takes care of the rest. This has taken away entirely the random deployment issues that used to come up when we were doing things randomly (environment differences, package version differences, etc.)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the automatic deployment features. It's really nice to only have to merge a pull-request and have that be the final step.
Clean and simple
What do you like best about the product?
Works simply. With a simple file you can configure your CI and all works fine. The free plan is really great and helpful. We can start to use circle-ci without any cost and solve a lot of problem in start. With time if we grow we can start payment and the insight get with payment are usefull
What do you dislike about the product?
the docker support is medium. We need add some trick to work with it. I rewrite almost all step to works fine and be sure my docker is well test.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I know if my build is green or not. All is automatic. I can deploy in security
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend it. It's simple and works like a charm. The free plan is really great to start without cost.
Circle review
What do you like best about the product?
Speed + ease of deployment, git integration, ios integration
What do you dislike about the product?
When I go to www.circle.com I have to click go to app vs just getting dropped at the dashboard
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
the classic CD/CI - huge benefits to every piece of the puzzle
Recommendations to others considering the product:
IOS testing is great
Practical and efficient
What do you like best about the product?
Its simple to use yet complete, we get quick feedback about our development process.
What do you dislike about the product?
low visibility of documentation, I think there should be a better way to reach the essential tools instead of having to dig around the rest of the features
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continues integration, automated deployment for an agile team
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