How Myridius turned days of review into minutes
Myridius’s 1,800 developers and testers relied on senior engineers for every code review. Codity took reviews from days to minutes, and added security coverage on top.
How Codity helped
- 1,800developers and testers covered
- Minutesper review, where it used to take days
- Minutesto onboard the platform
For any serious engineering organisation, I would highly recommend Codity, because it gives you the best of both worlds: excellent code quality coverage at great speed.
Meet Myridius
Product engineering at scale
Myridius runs a product engineering practice of about 1,800 developers and testers. For an engineering organisation of that size, guaranteeing code quality is not optional.
Vijay Venkatesh runs that practice, and with it the question of how 1,800 people’s work gets reviewed.
The problem
Quality that cost velocity
Code quality at Myridius depended on manual review by senior developers and leads. It worked, but it was slow, and at the scale of 1,800 people the cost showed up in two places.
- 01Every review waited on a senior developer or lead, which slowed the whole team down.
- 02Reviews were a lengthy process that could take days.
- 03Even then, issues would sometimes slip through the cracks.
In the past, we used to rely on manual code reviews done by our senior developers or leads. Unfortunately, this meant that the velocity of the team was compromised, because it would be a lengthy process, and sometimes issues would slip through the cracks.
The solution
Reviews in minutes, across the lifecycle
Myridius adopted Codity to automate the first pass of review. It covers more than the review itself: security vulnerabilities are caught alongside code quality, so they do not slip through either.
- 01Code reviews run in seconds and minutes rather than waiting for days.
- 02Coverage spans the lifecycle, including security vulnerabilities, not just the diff review.
- 03The platform was onboarded in minutes.
Codity stood out for us because it automates this process, and does code reviews in seconds and minutes rather than waiting for days. And it covers the entire lifecycle: not just code review, but also making sure security vulnerabilities don’t slip through the cracks.
The results
Speed without trading away coverage
With reviews no longer queued behind a handful of seniors, Myridius gets both halves of the trade it used to have to make: quality coverage and speed. Vijay also points to the support behind the platform as part of why the rollout went smoothly.
- 01Reviews arrive in minutes, not days.
- 02Security issues are caught alongside code quality.
- 03Developers and testers get answers from the Codity team whenever they have questions.
An essential part of that was the support we received from the Codity team: easy to reach at any point in time, whenever my developers or testers had questions, doubts or clarifications.
Takeaway
At 1,800 engineers, manual review means choosing between speed and quality. Myridius stopped choosing: reviews in minutes, with security covered in the same pass.
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