Ship Faster, No Fire Drills: CI/CD Cut Prod Deploy Time by 65
At a glance
CLIENT
Mid-sized hospitality group operating multi-brand hotels across regions
SERVICE
- DevOps Enablement, CI/CD Engineering, Test Automation, API Integration
INDUSTRY
- Hospitality & Travel
The client ran a portfolio of guest-facing and back-office apps (booking engine, loyalty, PMS integrations, housekeeping). Releases required weekend freezes and manual runbooks; average production deployment took 3 hours 10 minutes with a high coordination cost and frequent rollbacks. Lead time from code complete to production averaged 10–12 days, and change failure rate hovered around 14% due to inconsistent environments and limited automated tests.
LeanCoded engineered production-grade CI/CD with trunk-based development, environment parity, and fully automated promotion. We established contract-tested service integrations, standardized pipelines, and progressive delivery. Within two quarters, production deploy time fell by 65% (to 66 minutes median), change failure rate dropped to 4.6%, and lead time shrank to 2–3 days. Release frequency rose to daily for core services, with 99.95% availability maintained during peak seasons.
From Manual Playbooks to Production as a Routine Operation
We mapped the value stream from commit to customer and instrumented every stage. Build images, IaC, and app configs became versioned artifacts validated in one pipeline. Security and quality gates (SAST/DAST, license checks, performance budgets) ran on each change, while contract tests ensured partners and internal consumers stayed compatible. Acting as an api development company, we replaced ad-hoc point-to-point calls with versioned APIs and staged sandboxes so that integrations could evolve without breaking production.
To scale the cadence safely, we introduced devops services that included paved-road templates for CI/CD, automated rollbacks, and SLO-driven error-budget policies. We embedded a digital adoption platform into developer tooling; in-product guides and checklists reduced “how do I deploy?” requests by 41% and cut new-hire onboarding from 3 weeks to 8 days. Operationally, blue/green + canary strategies limited blast radius to 1–5% of traffic during first exposure.
Test Coverage Where It Matters, Savings Where They Count
Automated test coverage was reorganized around critical user journeys (search → book → pay; check-in/out; room assignment) to maximize signal and minimize flake. Performance budgets guarded p95 latency for booking APIs and payment flows. With targeted cloud cost optimization solutions—rightsizing, autoscaling policies, and tiered storage—cloud run-rate fell by 21% while preserving 3× surge capacity for holiday peaks. For partners (PMS, payment gateways, distribution), formal api integration support (mock servers, consumer-driven contracts, sandbox SLAs) cut integration lead time from 6–8 weeks to <2 weeks.
65% faster production deployments
Release more, break less
Lead time from days to days (not weeks)
Peak-season resilience built-in
People enabled to ship
Business Outcomes You Can Schedule Around
Releases moved from weekend events to weekday routine. The hotel group now deploys daily without guest-impacting freezes, experiments faster on loyalty and pricing, and keeps infra spend predictable. LeanCoded operated as an api development company, formalizing api integration support so PMS and payment vendors ship against sandboxes first—reducing partner-caused incidents by 58%. Continued savings accrue through cloud cost optimization solutions aligned to seasonal demand.
- Speed — 65% faster prod deploys
- Frequency — Daily releases to core services
- Stability — CFR 4.6%, rollback <90s
- Cost — Cloud run-rate –21% (with 3× headroom)
- Enablement — Onboarding 8 days, process tickets –41%
Next: Self-Service Environments and Mobile Ops
The roadmap introduces on-demand preview environments and governed self-service deployments. mobile app development services will deliver a lightweight operations app for change approvals and release health on the go. We’ll extend api integration support to additional distribution partners and iterate cost posture with cloud cost optimization solutions (spot pools, data tiering) as release velocity continues to climb.