Company
Date Published
Author
Rob Zuber
Word count
6390
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Over the course of two years, CircleCI has focused on improving the reliability of its platform by publishing monthly updates and implementing strategic changes, addressing customer feedback about transparency. Despite ceasing regular updates, they remain committed to public postmortems for prolonged incidents and continue to work on system improvements. Significant steps include re-architecting core systems, enhancing incident reporting, increasing synthetic test coverage, and developing integrated deploy and release capabilities. These efforts have resulted in notable reliability improvements, such as quickly identifying and mitigating production issues. CircleCI's ongoing focus is on reducing incident impact, safeguarding critical paths, and maintaining high system availability while navigating third-party dependencies. Their approach includes system isolation, simplifying complex structures, and investing in infrastructure to protect the platform from disruptions, ultimately aiming to provide a stable CI/CD environment for its users.