Company
Date Published
Author
Dan Lamm
Word count
598
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Choice Hotels significantly improved its deployment process by adopting Harness, resulting in an 85% reduction in deployment effort, cutting rollback times from four hours to five minutes, and saving $200,000 annually in maintenance costs. Previously relying on a heavily customized Jenkins solution, Choice Hotels faced challenges with scalability and modern deployment strategies, such as container support and canary releases, which were not adequately addressed by their legacy system. By transitioning to Harness, Choice Hotels was able to seamlessly modernize their deployment infrastructure, break down their monolithic architecture, and automate their deployment approval process. This transformation enabled faster issue discovery and resolution, reduced the financial impact of deployment failures, and allowed teams to deploy more frequently without the constraints of the previous system. The adoption of Harness not only streamlined operations but also eliminated the cumbersome maintenance associated with their old custom solution, providing a more agile and efficient approach to software delivery.