Hunter.io recommends Semaphore as a super simple and cost-effective CI/CD tool

In this video you’ll find the answers to these questions:

What role does CI/CD play in your daily operations?

CI/CD on every single code push repository to run tests, to line the code just to make sure it’s up to our coding standards to check for any security flaws. But also, we actually use it to automatically deploy the production. So pretty much what’s highly recommended for CI/CD setups out there, yeah.

Why made you choose Semaphore?

We use Semaphore for years now, really. It’s so long that actually I was asking around, why do we use it? And actually, we just use it because it’s just good. But really we are a pretty small team. My team is like three people, including me. So, we are really small. The whole company is like 20 people. And what’s really important for us is to get something really quickly and not spend too much time. And additional to that, obviously as any business, we want that to be cost-effective. And Semaphore is just that.

Which Semaphore features do you find the most useful?

Couple of features that are really useful, especially one. Sometimes you have a flaky spec. It just fails, but you don’t know why. And I had experience with RCI Systems where it’s just like you have to figure out just by pushing code, and hopefully this way design is going to work. With Semaphore, you can just SSH into a box and try it with Linux also as a formula environment for most developers, I guess. And just try it out and see why it doesn’t work. So this way it’s just way easier. Additionally, the new features that Semaphore use, like the metrics, the build metrics for the reliability for the times, it’s just great to have, for the team just to see how to help our CI.

How do you find Semaphore support?

We never really had any issues with Semaphore. The setup was plain and simple, almost plug-and-play, really. Whenever we even needed anything from our account skills part, they were really quick to answer. Overall, it was delight.

Why would you recommend Semaphore?

Semaphore is really easy to install. And that’s one of the big reasons, if you start out, or you’re just looking for a CI/CD tool, Semaphore is just great because you can just install and pretty much forget. And even later on they give you enough tools that, with some other tools on the market, you’ll probably have to implement them yourself. So like metrics and stuff like this, all of the CI providers actually don’t give you that. So that’s just great. And again, they’re still cost-effective, so you won’t break the bank at the end of the month, which is also important.

Hunter.io is an internet-based company that specializes in finding and verifying professional email addresses. The company’s primary service involves providing users with the ability to type in someone’s name and a company name to find the corresponding email address. This service is particularly useful for sales teams and sales development representatives who need to connect with specific individuals within a company. In addition to this, Hunter.io also offers a browser extension that can return all the email addresses using the same domain found on the web. The company also provides support for users when the Email Finder doesn’t return any results.

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