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Date Published
Author
Dan Lamm
Word count
600
Language
English
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None

Summary

Raisin, a leading pan-European wealth management platform, successfully transitioned from using Jenkins to Harness for software deployments, resulting in a 60% reduction in deployment effort and $525,000 in annual savings. The change increased deployment frequency by fivefold, enabling 53 deployments per month and significantly reducing new application onboarding time from two days to just 30 minutes. Initially, Raisin's central DevOps team, led by José Meyer, faced challenges with Jenkins due to its complexity and high maintenance demands, which consumed 80% of the team's time. The switch to Harness allowed the distribution of software deployment responsibilities to application teams, democratizing and automating the process, and reducing the DevOps team's involvement to 20% of their time. The streamlined process and improved efficiency with Harness facilitated quicker application deployment and attracted interest from various application teams within the company.