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Buildkite x REA Group, 80% faster CI team setup by replacing Jenkins and Bamboo

80% reduction in team setup time

Fragmented, high-overhead CI to streamlined, autonomous pipelines

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Why it works

The story is short but leads with a concrete directional metric that matches the efficiency framing well. The before-state is specific: a dozen clusters, mixed build systems, high maintenance overhead, and slow pipeline setup. The mechanism is clear enough to follow: replace Jenkins and Bamboo with an autoscaling Buildkite stack on AWS and Docker.

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Pairing a percentage reduction with an explicit before/after time unit ('weeks to days') gives the headline metric immediate human scale without requiring the reader to do math.

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  • Vendor Buildkite
  • Customer REA Group
  • Industry SaaS
  • Trigger Multiple build systems across a dozen clusters creating maintenance costs and bottlenecks
  • Format Written narrative
  • Structure Challenge-Solution-Results
  • Medium Web page