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Works fine for small teams
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to setup, it supports on project configuration by yaml config file. It is possible to use a range of tools for the complete CI workflow, from source checkout, maven project build, test and deploy to different stages. Its more than enough for projects written on languages that are not memory hunger like Java. They give you 4GB of memory to build your project.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it takes too long to build, and some features are only available if you pay much more for it. The basic profile is only capable to attend small teams. If you have more people working on the project, doing a lot of commits, you may need to pay much more for it to work.
We have faced a lot of out of service problems on the last couple of months, down times that were critical to the project.
It's very difficult to build an Android project, as it requires a lot of memory to build, specially because the Gradle builder is memory hunger.
We have faced a lot of out of service problems on the last couple of months, down times that were critical to the project.
It's very difficult to build an Android project, as it requires a lot of memory to build, specially because the Gradle builder is memory hunger.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Implementing the continuous delivery workflow. From build to test and deploy phases.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it when you have a small team, or if it fits your budget, buy the higher profile. But make sure you have tested it with multiple users in one project and check the down times and time it takes to build and run all the required steps in your pipeline before buying the full version of the service.
Circleci is GREAT
What do you like best about the product?
Errors are easy to identify and the testing integration with GitHub is fantastic and has saved our bacon several times!
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes tests take a long time to run and cannot be run in parallel
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Catching conflicts between repos and within the code base before the code goes to QA
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a great continuous integration and deployment tool and the integration with GitHub is RAD!
Continuous Integration made easy!
What do you like best about the product?
The integration of CircleCI with github is very seamless. It took little effort to add git repos to the circleci projects. Also the circleci interface is quite slick. For Jobs, you can easily tab between the Test Summary, Queue, Artifacts Configuration and Timing! I am using version 2.0. I can't compare to the previous version, but so far I have to say this is much much easier to setup and run from scratch, compared to say Jenkins on prem. Last but least, you can send the results (Pass or Fail) -- and the link to it on the circleCI site -- via a Slack channel :)
What do you dislike about the product?
Haven't run into any cons thus far. Migrating from CircleCI 1.0 to 2.0 constructs can be a challenge at times, but if starting with 2.0 version, then it's great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continuous integration, builds and test runs of code commits. The runs (jobs) and results have been quick and easy to consume thus far. Best part is not having to maintain a CI server like Jenkins.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a good time to start with CircleCI with their 2.0 release! Make sure to take advantage of their docker container setup to run and test your code.
Great product, wish the builds were a bit faster!
What do you like best about the product?
Great docker support. Good UI. Good docs. Good Github integration.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Most of our build time is spent spinning up the environment. I wish that was a bit faster.
2. It would be GREAT if I could exit early from a job without giving an exit error code. Basically I want to skip parts of the job based on certain conditions. Of course I can do this inside a shell script, but some build steps cannot be executed inside a shell. The example I'm thinking of is "setup_remote_docker", which comprises a large chunk of our build time (see point 1).
2. It would be GREAT if I could exit early from a job without giving an exit error code. Basically I want to skip parts of the job based on certain conditions. Of course I can do this inside a shell script, but some build steps cannot be executed inside a shell. The example I'm thinking of is "setup_remote_docker", which comprises a large chunk of our build time (see point 1).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're actually using CircleCI to deploy our SAAS product. It helps keep us agile.
A nice continous integration server on the cloud.
What do you like best about the product?
Unit testing is the most important element in our software development process, since it guarantees the quality of our product, but at the same time, is the most time consuming since we have around 8,000 tests and take around 30 minutes to run in a fast computer. When run, they are very resource intensive, so the developer can't do much while they are running. CircleCi takes care of it for us and notifies us in case something goes wrong.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the service is a little bit slow and unresponsive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quality of our product is the main problem CircleCI helps us solve.
Time savings and developer productivity is a big WIN for us.
Build automation is another great feature. Being able to push changes via their workflows is a time saver.
Time savings and developer productivity is a big WIN for us.
Build automation is another great feature. Being able to push changes via their workflows is a time saver.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to simplify your product development process and automate the testing and deployment, look no further. Circle CI delivers !
Great CI solution
What do you like best about the product?
Configurability and good support.
They support using custom docker images for building on which really helps with getting all the tooling in one place.being able to use the docker layer in a distributed way also speeds up builds quite a bit
They support using custom docker images for building on which really helps with getting all the tooling in one place.being able to use the docker layer in a distributed way also speeds up builds quite a bit
What do you dislike about the product?
No root (so no VPN access) when building.
Which you could make changed to the config through the web dashboard instead of only by editing the yaml.
Which you could make changed to the config through the web dashboard instead of only by editing the yaml.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our iteration cycles are much shorter, friendly interface for watching builds. Low barrier to entry to customize builds
CircleCI? YAY!
What do you like best about the product?
I love that CircleCI is so thorough and complete! I also really appreciate that CircleCI has a friendly user experience. Making sure I have coverage is much less of a headache than it was once upon a time.
What do you dislike about the product?
My biggest "dislike" about CircleCI? Has to be when I have code that doesn't pass and I feel sad. If only that wasn't a me problem! :D
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CircleCI helps ensure our code is tested and verified, and that we're making responsible releases.
Perfect for a startup
What do you like best about the product?
Super easy to use. Intuitive design, takes few mins to set up
What do you dislike about the product?
Need a cheaper plan for smaller startups
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automated builds and deployment
Great tool for integrated testing
What do you like best about the product?
It can easily be set up with GitHub, and from there makes sure a new feature to be pulled in the main code base doesn't break any of the tests that have been set up.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's probably not a circle-ci thing, but when first introduced to circle-ci and not doing the actual set up of it as a junior it can be a learning curve. When you have failing tests in the circle ci it can be hard to see the errors or know which commands to run depending on the test suite that is failing especially with es-lint.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making sure that new features are compliant with the testing suites and that it doesn't break the main code base.
Works great but support could be better
What do you like best about the product?
Docker support, works very well, good options, the workflows are great
What do you dislike about the product?
Support could be better and the Circle V2 launch was a bit of a mess, they put out a service which was barely a beta. Fortunately it has stabilised a lot
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continuous integration
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