Prophesee
How Zivid teams scale up by automating merges, being more efficient, and saving time.
Norway
Facing multiple rebase issues to merge.
Scaling the CI system & the monorepo structure.
Improve productivity and life of engineers.
Company's description
Zivid designs and manufactures industrial 3D machine vision cameras and vision software for autonomous industrial robot cells, collaborative robot (cobot) cells, and other industrial automation systems. Their high-quality 3D vision and software enable customers to detect, pick, and place parts in bin-picking, piece-picking, assembly, machine tending, and packing applications. The company was created in 2015 in Norway, and its software engineering team now counts twenty-five developers — and growing.
What It Was Like Before Mergify
Zivid's engineering team uses a monorepo structure, and they were seeing scalability issues. Like many teams, they force their pull request to be up-to-date before allowing them to enter their base branch. The GitHub branch protection system provided this protection, but put the burden of keeping the pull request up to date on the shoulders of the engineer.
To keep their pull request up to date, engineers would have to rebase multiple times to get their pull request merged. They were clicking the Update Branch button all day. A loss of time and a great source of frustration for engineers.
Their motivation to look for a solution was to free some time to make sure developers were productive while improving their work conditions. It is really important to Zivid to build a team where people are happy.
After looking for a merge bot, an engineer in the team knew about Mergify and suggested it. They tested it and adopted it immediately. It was a no-brainer.
Mathias Nedrebø - Head of Software Engineering at Zivid
Zivid
We haven't touched the configuration since we set it up. We are pretty happy with it! Mergify is a nice tool to make your work team more efficient. When you start to feel pain points, it's a no-brainer for teams.
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A New Way of Working
Mergify enhanced the way Zivid engineering team works:
Mergify Contribution to Zivid
At Zivid, work quality & happiness are values that the company does not want to miss. With an engineering team made of twenty-five people, it's essential to provide software that is easy to use and improve their daily tasks.
As Mergify is easy to deploy, they quickly integrated it into their work and now gave the responsibility to Mergify to do what they were manually doing before. Automating your merge processes allows saving engineers' hours and CI costs.
Mathias Nedrebø - Head of Software Engineering at Zivid
Zivid
Everyone is really happy that we got Mergify! It's a great success. It's reliable and stable. It does not cost much engineering effort to set up and it removed so much frustration while saving so much CI cost!😁
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