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    CircleCI

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/ACircleCI is a software delivery engine from the company of the same name in San Francisco, that helps teams ship software faster, offering their platform for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). Ultimately, the solution helps to map every source of change for software teams, so they can accelerate innovation and growth.

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    for up to 6,000 build minutes and up to 5 active users per month

    Rootly

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/AA solution to automate incident response on Slack, that lets users handoff alerts from PagerDuty and automatically create incidents without ever leaving Slack. Its relevant runbooks and metadata (deploy events) shortcut resolution times.N/A
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    CircleCIRootly
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    starting at $2000
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    CircleCIRootly
    Incident Response Platforms
    Comparison of Incident Response Platforms features of CircleCI and Rootly
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    CircleCI
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    Rootly
    10.0
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    11% above category average
    Company-wide Incident Reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Integration with Other Security Systems00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Attack Chain Visualization00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Centralized Dashboard00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Machine Learning to Prevent Incidents00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Live Response for Rapid Remediation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    AWS CodePipeline
    Score6.6 out of 10
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    Score6.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CircleCIRootly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (27 ratings)
    10.0
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    Usability
    9.0
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    9.0
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    Performance
    7.8
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    6.9
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    User Testimonials
    CircleCIRootly
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CircleCI
    Based on our experience, CircleCI is well-suited for automating mobile app release cycles. For example, to release an iOS app, you would need to build, sign, and upload it to TestFlight, which requires a dedicated Mac in the office. But with CircleCI, you can have macOS executors, so you don't have to manage a physical build machine. Another benefit is that CircleCI's certified AWS Orbs abstract away complex authentication and deployment logic, allowing us to build, push, and deploy Docker containers to Amazon ECS with minimal configuration and high reliability. CircleCI is less suited for smaller projects where the development and deployment are not that extensive, for example, a static site. Once you have built a static site, you probably won't make any further changes, so there's no point in paying for it.
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    Rootly
    Rootly is great for both remote companies and in-person, but especially well suited for remote. There is such a wide variety of functionalities that Rootly can offer, both internally for your company and externally for your customers. Rootly streamlines and centralizes a lot of data you may be keeping in separate spaces which could be excluding some memebers from being in the loop and adds additional time in your day tracking and organization information. Rootly makes everything real-time for our company through the integrations
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    Pros
    CircleCI
    • Automated builds! This is really why you get CircleCI, to automate the build process. This makes building your application far more reliable and repeatable. It can also run tests and verify your application is working as expected.
    • Simple. Unlike Jenkins, Teamcity, or other platforms, CircleCI doesn't need a lot of setup. It's completely hosted, so there's no infrastructure to set up. The config file does take a bit to understand, but if you follow their example and start with something small and add to it, you can get it up and going quicker than it first looks.
    • Scales easily. Again, since it's all cloud-based, you don't have to manage or scale infrastructure. Simply subscribe to the number of containers you want, and scaling up just means buying more containers.
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    Rootly
    • clear tracking
    • step management, for where we are at in the process of resolving the issues (whose hands it is currently in to deal with the problem)
    • centralized clear and easy communication to our organization
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    Cons
    CircleCI
    • While configuration is easy, the config files can get very very long.
    • Price compared to some alternatives that are cheaper / free. Especially so if you are running multiple containers in parallel.
    • Have experienced numerous outages (3-5) in the last few months where CircleCI has been down.
    • Web documentation and tutorials haven't been as good as some of the competitors.
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    Rootly
    • while the interface provides great information and everything that you need, there can be a learning curve to understand what you are looking at
    • having all notifications on for slack/teams can cause lots of notifications in a larger organization
    • like any technology, there is room for error with feature issues or integrations issues
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    Usability
    CircleCI
    The reliability & speed, it just works. The ability to spin up macOS runners and Docker containers on demand without managing hardware is a huge win. The Orbs system makes integrating with AWS and Slack incredibly easy, saving us weeks of custom scripting and providing real-time updates in our Slack channel. This makes it easy for us to track and ensures that everyone involved knows the status. Of course, it has drawbacks related to configuration complexity and, in some cases, cost transparency, but overall, it is an industry-standard, robust tool that solves our core infrastructure problems well.
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    Rootly
    great usability, bit of a learning curve with the product because there is so much information to digest and Rootly gives you lots of different angles and preferences for how you would like to see it displayed. For those with high tech skills its much easier but for those who are less tech savvy it can be overwhelming
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    Performance
    CircleCI
    It's pretty snappy, even with using workflows with multiple steps and different docker images. I've seen builds take a long time if it's really involved, but from what I can tell, it's still at least on par if not faster than other build tools.
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    Rootly
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    Support Rating
    CircleCI
    Unless you have a reasonably large account, you're going to be mainly stuck reading their documentation. Which has improved somewhat over the years but is still extremely limited compared to a platform like Digital Ocean who invested in the documentation and a community to ensure it's kept up to date. If you can't find your answer there, you can be stuck.
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    Rootly
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    Alternatives Considered
    CircleCI
    Jenkins is usually self-hosted, Travis CI's infrastructure is largely unreliable (lots of tests time out for no discernable reason), and Semaphore encourages you to configure your CI/CD from a web UI. We like CircleCI because its hosted, our tests run largely as expected on their infrastructure, and we can configure it from a config file that we track in GitHub.
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    Rootly
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    Return on Investment
    CircleCI
    • We pay over $5K/ month and we have high expectations for service. Sometimes I feel that we don't get the value, but only sometimes.
    • We have had to build our own application to keep state and broker releases and deployments. We call our app deployer. I feel that CircleCI could do more to understand our needs and possibly build additional features that would enable us to invest less in build and deployment infrastructure and justify paying more for Circle.
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    Rootly
    • streamlined communication for our entire business, one stop shop for incidents and their updates
    • Improved collaboration and engagement from our org
    • faster response times and more accurate reporting
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