CircleCI explained

Circle Internet Services, Inc.
Type:Private
Industry:CI/CD
Founded:September 1st, 2011
Founders:Paul Biggar, Allen Rohner
Hq Location City:San Francisco
Hq Location Country:United States
Key People:Jim Rose (CEO)
Products:CircleCI.com (Saas), CircleCI Enterprise (on-prem)
Num Employees:650

CircleCI is a continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) platform that can be used to implement DevOps practices. The company was founded in September 2011 and has raised $315 million in venture capital funding as of 2021, at a valuation of $1.7 billion. CircleCI is one of the world's most popular CI/CD platforms.[1] Facebook, Coinbase, Sony, Kickstarter, GoPro, and Spotify used CircleCI in 2019.

Timeline

2011

2013

2014

2016

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Milestones and incidents

Financing

CircleCI raised $50k from a small investor a few months after starting,[18] $1.5m in seed funding in 2013,[19] a $6m Series A round from DFJ in 2014, a $18M Series B financing round from Scale Venture Partners in 2016, a $31M Series C led by Top Tier Capital Partners in 2018,[20] a $56M Series D led by Owl Rock Capital and NextEquity Partners in 2019,[21] a $100M Series E round led by IVP in 2020,[22] and a $100M Series F round led by Greenspring Associates in 2021.[23] In total this is $315 million in funding.

Acquisitions

CircleCI acquired Distiller in 2014, Vamp in 2021, and Ponicode in 2022.[23] [24]

Data breaches

In 2013, CircleCI suffered a major data breach due to its provider MongoHQ, but was able to quickly respond and replace its security keys, resulting in almost no lost customers.[25]

In August 2019, there was a data breach in a third-party analytics vendor account used by CircleCI.[26]

In January 2023, CircleCI announced a recent system breach and advised customers to rotate "any and all secrets" stored in CircleCI.[27]

Product

CircleCI monitors GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, and Atlassian Bitbucket repositories and launches builds for each new commit.[28] CircleCI automatically tests builds in either Docker containers or virtual machines and deploys passing builds to target environments.[21] A dashboard and API allow tracking the status of builds and metrics related to builds.[29] A Slack integration notifies teams if issues arise.[22] [30]

SSH support allows locally running jobs, and security measures prevent tampering.[21] CircleCI also offers a workflow approval feature that pauses the job(s) until manual approval is given.[31]

CircleCI supports Go, Java, Ruby, Python, Scala, Node.js, PHP, Haskell, and any other language that runs on Linux or macOS.

The company offers a managed cloud service with a free tier available.[32] The platform can also be self-hosted on a private server (behind a corporate firewall), or as a private deployment in the cloud.[33] The cloud service was initially written from scratch but now uses HashiCorp's Nomad and Kubernetes.[34]

CircleCI reduces risk by ensuring frequent testing and releases, and with the managed cloud service, takes care of CI infrastructure maintenance and provisioning.[8] The cloud service can be set up within minutes, but is less customizable than Jenkins.[35]

Orbs

Orbs are shareable snippets of YAML that can be used to simplify CircleCI builds and perform deployments.[23] [36] CircleCI had integrations with 45 partners as of 2019.[21] CircleCI's target deployment environments include Amazon Web Services, Heroku, Azure, Google Compute Engine, Docker images, and virtual Linux, Android, Windows, or macOS machines with VMware. In 2018 CircleCI's config.yml was the fastest growing YAML file on GitHub.[37]

The proprietary configuration syntax introduces vendor lock-in, meaning that switching CI services requires rewriting the pipeline.[38]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Atkinson . Brandon . Edwards . Dallas . Generic Pipelines Using Docker: The DevOps Guide to Building Reusable, Platform Agnostic CI/CD Frameworks . 19 December 2018 . Apress . 978-1-4842-3655-0 . 96 . en.
  2. Web site: CircleCI on Twitter . Twitter . en.
  3. Web site: Marks . Trisha . Finding Product-Market Fit in Start-Up Marketing . www.properexpression.com . 18 January 2022 . en.
  4. Bonnaire-Sergeant . Ambrose . Davies . Rowan . Tobin-Hochstadt . Sam . Practical Optional Types for Clojure . Programming Languages and Systems . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . 2016 . 9632 . 68–94 . 10.1007/978-3-662-49498-1_4. 1812.03571. 978-3-662-49497-4 . 18361363 .
  5. News: Hall . Susan . CircleCI buys Distiller to Support Mobile App Development . 17 October 2022 . The New Stack . 17 December 2014.
  6. Web site: CircleCI milestones . 2022-06-07 . CircleCI . en.
  7. News: Kennedy . John . Going Dark: How Paul Biggar is building the future of software . 17 January 2022 . Silicon Republic . 2 July 2018 . en.
  8. News: Make way for the modern continuous integration and delivery platform software teams love to use: CircleCI . The Silicon Review . en.
  9. News: Wieczner. Jen. People are Accusing Uber of Stealing This Startup's Logo. 1 February 2017. Fortune. February 19, 2016.
  10. News: Lincoln . Kevin . Isn't It Weird the Logo in The Circle Looks Just Like Uber's? . 17 October 2022 . Vulture . 28 April 2017 . en-us.
  11. News: Sargent . Jenna . SD Times news digest: CircleCI authorized by FedRamp, KotlinConf announcements, and Google extends PyTorch support . 18 January 2022 . SD Times . 4 October 2018.
  12. News: Speed . Richard . They're climbing through the Windows: CircleCI goes native on Microsoft's OS . 18 January 2022 . www.theregister.com . en.
  13. News: Speed . Richard . The lure of Brexit Britain proves too great for DevOps pipeline wrangler CircleCI . 18 January 2022 . www.theregister.com . en.
  14. Web site: 2022-01-11 . CircleCI now offers the most generous free plan anywhere . 2022-07-11 . CircleCI . en.
  15. Web site: Rose . Jim . Effective December 22, Paul Biggar is no longer a director at CircleCI. . LinkedIn . 25 December 2023 . en . 22 December 2023.
  16. News: Qazi . Shereena . Code of silence: How one techie unmasked Silicon Valley's hypocrisy on Gaza . 25 December 2023 . TRT World . 25 December 2023 . en.
  17. Web site: Paul Biggar (@paulbiggar@hachyderm.io) . Hachyderm.io . 25 December 2023 . en . 23 December 2023.
  18. Web site: Biggar . Paul . I founded CircleCI (valued at $1.7B) and Darklang. AMA! . Indie Hackers . 18 January 2022.
  19. News: Darrow . Barb . CircleCI gets $1.5M to build out continuous integration service . 17 January 2022 . Gigaom . 25 February 2013 . 18 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220118214107/https://gigaom.com/2013/02/25/circleci-gets-1-5m-to-build-out-continuous-integration-service/ . dead .
  20. News: Tansey . Bernadette . Xconomy: CircleCI Nabs $31M to Enhance DevOps Platform With Automation Tools . 18 January 2022 . Xconomy . 17 January 2018 . en.
  21. News: Wiggers . Kyle . CircleCI raises $56 million to continuously test software builds for bugs . 17 January 2022 . VentureBeat . 23 July 2019.
  22. News: Wiggers . Kyle . CircleCI raises $100 million for automated app testing and deployment . 17 January 2022 . VentureBeat . 7 April 2020.
  23. News: Sawars . Paul . Continuous software integration/delivery platform CircleCI nabs $100M . 17 January 2022 . VentureBeat . 11 May 2021.
  24. News: Lardinois . Frederic . CircleCI acquires Ponicode . 22 April 2022 . TechCrunch.
  25. Web site: Harrison . Kim . The Time Our Provider Screwed Us . LaunchDarkly . 18 January 2022 . en.
  26. News: Oates . John . Today's data whoopsie is brought to you by CircleCI: Source safe, but look out for phishers . 18 January 2022 . www.theregister.com . en.
  27. Web site: Page . Carly . 2023-01-05 . CircleCI warns customers to rotate 'any and all secrets' after hack . 2023-01-05 . TechCrunch . en-US.
  28. News: Bohon . Cory . CI/CD platforms: How to choose the right continuous integration and delivery system for your business . 19 January 2022 . TechRepublic . 20 December 2021 . en.
  29. Web site: Riggins . Jennifer . CircleCI Insights Helps DevOps Teams Quantify High-Performance . The New Stack . 18 January 2022 . 8 April 2020.
  30. News: Rubens. Paul. 7 ways to get more from Slack. 1 February 2017. CIO magazine. June 21, 2016. 28 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170228202937/http://www.cio.com/article/3086158/collaboration/7-ways-to-get-more-from-slack.html. dead.
  31. Web site: Wainewright . Phil . How CircleCI speeds DevOps cycle times with CI/CD automation . diginomica.com . 18 January 2022 . en . 7 January 2020.
  32. News: Dotson . Kyt . CircleCI is offering a new free CI/CD plan for DevOps teams with more features . 18 January 2022 . SiliconANGLE . 11 January 2022.
  33. Book: Arora . Chandermani . Hennessy . Kevin . Noring . Christoffer . Uluca . Doguhan . Building Large-Scale Web Applications with Angular: Your one-stop guide to building scalable and production-grade Angular web apps . 21 December 2018 . Packt Publishing Ltd . 978-1-78995-832-4 . 518 . en.
  34. Web site: Oliver . Kiran . Williams . Alex . CircleCI's Technical Architecture Is Built for Scalability . The New Stack . 18 January 2022 . 16 November 2017.
  35. Book: Belmont . Jean-Marcel . Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery: Build and release quality software at scale with Jenkins, Travis CI, and CircleCI . 29 August 2018 . Packt Publishing Ltd . 978-1-78913-307-3 . 266 . en.
  36. Book: Uluca . Doguhan . Angular for Enterprise-Ready Web Applications: Build and deliver production-grade and cloud-scale evergreen web apps with Angular 9 and beyond, 2nd Edition . 29 May 2020 . Packt Publishing Ltd . 978-1-83864-660-8 . 459 . en.
  37. News: Claburn . Thomas . Behold, the world's most popular programming language – and it is...wait, er, YAML?!? . 18 January 2022 . www.theregister.com . en.
  38. Book: Ostrowski . Adrian . Gaczkowski . Piotr . Software Architecture with C++: Design modern systems using effective architecture concepts, design patterns, and techniques with C++20 . 23 April 2021 . Packt Publishing Ltd . 978-1-78961-246-2 . 462 . en.

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