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My experience with TeamCity
August 03, 2018

My experience with TeamCity

Ramendra Sahu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with TeamCity

TeamCity is the go-to tool to getting the Builds and Deployments packages for a variety of platforms like .NET, Java and JS etc. It is being used by the whole organization. It unifies the build and deployments needs of all the diverse projects to a single platform and solves the build and release issues previously we faced and reduces the time to go to Prod.
  • First and foremost is the ease of use
  • Very good support for extending , plugging and scripting support to customize your needs
  • Lightweight and accessible by browser.
  • The Debug log is quite verbose and could be made more intuitive for troubleshooting build errors
  • I would recommend improving it by some kind of integration with platforms like StackOverflow to aid developers and further improve the turnaround time for setting up successful builds
  • There is still scope for improvement for build integration with projects in AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
  • It has drastically improved the turnaround time for building and deploying projects to Production
  • The build process can be augmented by adding build servers quickly
  • In my opinion the licensing cost is not expensive at least for small to medium enterprises, although I haven't looked in detail into how it changes when you move up.
TeamCity competes against the TFS build, Visual Studio Team services and Jenkins the open source workhorse. The reason for selecting TeamCity was because it was found to be a great fit for all the diverse projects on a spectrum of technologies we have which the TFS Build clearly lacks. Jenkins is also a good fit but TeamCity has the edge because of the maturity and the product and support it provides.
It is vary valuable to integrate the traditional .NET , JS, Java projects because of the maturity and the features the platform offers. There's a ton of options to extend the build and deployment process because of the support for scripting it provides. The learning curve is quite easy and the product is intuitive and very natural to understand.