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CircleCI x Baracoda, monorepo build time cut by more than half

Build time cut from 40-60 minutes to under 20 minutes

Slow, high-maintenance Jenkins to fast, self-managing monorepo CI

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Why it works

The story earns its Efficiency tag with a concrete before-and-after: builds that took 40 to 60 minutes on Jenkins now finish in under 20 minutes with nearly 50 parallel instances. The secondary New Capability angle is real because Baracoda could not run monorepo workloads at this scale on Jenkins at all, making parallelism a net-new ability, not just a speed gain. The quote from the Head of Software Engineering carries specific numbers and mechanism detail, which keeps the piece from feeling like vendor marketing.

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Anchor the result in two dimensions simultaneously: wall-clock time reduced AND concurrency increased. Quoting both makes the improvement feel more credible and harder to dismiss than a single percentage.

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  • Vendor CircleCI
  • Customer Baracoda
  • Industry Healthcare
  • Trigger Monorepo migration made build times unacceptably long
  • Format Written narrative
  • Structure Challenge-Solution-Results
  • Medium Web page