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    CircleCI

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/ACircleCI is a software delivery engine from the company of the same name in San Francisco, that helps teams ship software faster, offering their platform for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). Ultimately, the solution helps to map every source of change for software teams, so they can accelerate innovation and growth.

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    TeamCity

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/ATeamCity is a continuous integration server from Czeck company JetBrains.N/A
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    CircleCITeamCity
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    CircleCITeamCity
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    CircleCITeamCity
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    CircleCI
    Chose CircleCI
    Circle was the first CI with simple setup, great documentation, and tight integration with GitHub. Using Jenkins was too much maintenance and overhead, TeamCity was limited in how we could customize it and run concurrent builds, TravisCI was not available for private repos when …
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    Chose TeamCity
    This application is easy to install and deploy at site than most of the similar solutions in market. Easy user interface is one of the reason it can be installed. However each software have its good points and bad points. Study your organizations case and then only choose …
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    Chose TeamCity
    TeamCity by far has the best interface TeamCity still supported our old SubVersion reports as well.
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    CircleCITeamCity
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    Apache Maven
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    AWS CodePipeline
    Score6.6 out of 10
    Apache Maven
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    AWS CodePipeline
    Score6.6 out of 10
    Gradle Build Tool (Open Source)
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    CircleCITeamCity
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    8.0
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    Usability
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    6.9
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    User Testimonials
    CircleCITeamCity
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    CircleCI
    CircleCI is perfect for a CI/CD pipeline for an app using a standard build process. It'll take more work for a complex build process, but should still be up to the task unless you need a lot of integrations with other tools. If you have a big team and can spare someone to focus full time on just the CI/CD tools, maybe something like Jenkins is better, but if you're just looking to get your app built, tested, and delivered without a huge amount of effort, CircleCI is probably your preferred tool.
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    JetBrains
    TeamCity is very quick and straightforward to get up and running. A new server and a handful of agents could be brought online in easily under an hour. The professional tier is completely free, full-featured, and offers a huge amount of growth potential. TeamCity does exceptionally well in a small-scale business or enterprise setting.
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    Pros
    CircleCI
    • Multiple builds can be run at the same time in parallel.
    • The CircleCI web interface (UI/UX) is very easy to understand and use.
    • Easy Configuration to learn and use. Just a single configuration YAML file.
    • Many integrations. We use the GItHub, Slack, and DataDog integrations.
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    • TeamCity provides a great integration with git, especially Bitbucket.
    • When a new code release (build) fails TeamCity has a great tool for investigation and troubleshooting.
    • TeamCity provides a user-friendly interface. While some technical knowledge is required to use TeamCity, the design helps simply things.
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    Cons
    CircleCI
    • The "phases" their config file uses to separate out options seem very arbitrary and are not very helpful for organizing your config file
    • No way that I know of to configure which version of MongoDB you use. You have to write your own shell script to download and start MongoDB if you want a specific version.
    • Hard to access build artifacts in the UI
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    JetBrains
    • The customization is still fairly complex and is best managed by a dev support team. There is great flexibility, but with flexibility comes responsibility. It isn't always obvious to a developer how to make simple customizations.
    • Sometimes the process for dealing with errors in the process isn't obvious. Some paths to rerunning steps redo dependencies unnecessarily while other paths that don't are less obvious.
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    Usability
    CircleCI
    CircleCI interface is awesome in that it is relatively modern and makes it clear exactly which parts of the engineering lifecycle you are in
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    JetBrains
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    Performance
    CircleCI
    It's pretty snappy, even with using workflows with multiple steps and different docker images. I've seen builds take a long time if it's really involved, but from what I can tell, it's still at least on par if not faster than other build tools.
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    JetBrains
    TeamCity runs really well, even when sharing a small instance with other applications. The user interface adequately conveys important information without being overly bloated, and it is snappy. There isn't any significant overhead to build agents or unit test runners that we have measured.
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    Support Rating
    CircleCI
    Unless you have a reasonably large account, you're going to be mainly stuck reading their documentation. Which has improved somewhat over the years but is still extremely limited compared to a platform like Digital Ocean who invested in the documentation and a community to ensure it's kept up to date. If you can't find your answer there, you can be stuck.
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    JetBrains
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    Alternatives Considered
    CircleCI
    Circle was the first CI with simple setup, great documentation, and tight integration with GitHub. Using Jenkins was too much maintenance and overhead, TeamCity was limited in how we could customize it and run concurrent builds, TravisCI was not available for private repos when we switched.
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    JetBrains
    TeamCity is a great on-premise Continuous Integration tool. Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is a hosted SAAS application in Microsoft's Cloud. VSTS is a Source Code Repository, Build and Release System, and Agile Project Management Platform - whereas TeamCity is a Build and Release System only. TeamCity's interface is easier to use than VSTS, and neither have a great deployment pipeline solution. But VSTS's natural integration with Microsoft products, Microsoft's Cloud, Integration with Azure Active Directory, and free, private, Source Code repository - offer additional features and capabilities not available with Team City alone.
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    Return on Investment
    CircleCI
    • It has eased the burden of standardizing our testing and deployment, making onboarding new developers much faster, and having to fix deployment mistakes much less often.
    • It allows us to focus our process around the GitHub workflow, ignoring the details of whatever environment the thing we're working on is actually hosted in. This saves us time.
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    JetBrains
    • TeamCity has greatly improved team efficiency by streamlining our production and pre-production pipelines. We moved to TeamCity after seeing other teams have more success with it than we had with other tools.
    • TeamCity has helped the reliability of our product by easily allowing us to integrate unit testing, as well as full integration testing. This was not possible with other tools given our corporate firewall.
    • TeamCity's ability to include Docker containers in the pipeline steps has been crucial in improving our efficiency and reliability.
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