Case study · education
EdTech Release Automation
From 3-week releases to 2-day deploys - quality gates in CI.
EdTech Release Automation case studyOverview
The brief.
A fast-growing edtech platform was shipping on a three-week cadence with no automated gates. We introduced CI quality gates and trunk-based delivery, cutting the cycle to two days with zero critical escapes.
Client
Learning platform
Education
1.2M learners
Gallery
In the wild.
The numbers.
Results
3w -> 2d
Release cycle
0
Critical escapes
The challenge
What was in the way.
Slow, risky releases
Manual QA and nightly deploys meant every release was a fire drill and regressions reached students.
No safety net
A single broken commit could take the platform down for hours with no automated rollback.
The solution
How we solved it.
We built a trunk-based CI/CD pipeline with axe accessibility gates, k6 performance checks and Playwright e2e suites - red blocks the merge.
“Releases went from an all-hands event to a quiet Tuesday.”
Outcome
The bottom line.
From 3-week releases to 2-day deploys - quality gates in CI.
FAQ
About this engagement.
How long to set up?
Four weeks to a gated pipeline with full e2e coverage.
Do you keep our stack?
Yes - we harden the CI you already run.
What if a deploy fails?
Automated rollback plus a documented runbook.
Want results like these?
We build to the outcome, then let the numbers speak.