How we cut a company's release time from 45 minutes to under 4
A logistics software company spent half a day on every product update. We fixed that — permanently.
Time per release
45 minutes
4 minutes
Releases per month
2
20+
Engineers needed
2 people
0 (automated)
Production incidents
3–4 / month
0 (3 months)
The situation
Every time this team wanted to release an update — even a small bug fix — it took two engineers most of an afternoon. They copied files manually over a server connection, ran database changes by hand, restarted services one at a time, and hoped nothing broke. They were only shipping new features twice a month because every release felt like a risk.
This is more common than most companies admit.
What we did
We packaged their application into a container (like a self-contained bundle), set up automatic testing that runs whenever code is changed, and wired everything up so that approved changes deploy themselves — safely, with an automatic rollback if anything goes wrong. The whole thing now happens while the team is having their morning coffee.
The result
Deployments went from a stressful 45-minute team effort to a 4-minute automatic process that no one has to supervise. The team now ships updates daily — and the last production incident was over three months ago.