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How Coast reduced CI spend by 70%
Coast's journey from expensive GitHub-hosted runners to cost-effective, high-performance CI with Namespace
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Coast

Coast offers a new solution to companies for managing fleet's expenses as well as a smart Visa fleet and fuel card.

Financial ServicesFleet Management
70%
Cost Reduction
In CI spend after switching to Namespace
5x
Faster Builds
Dramatically shorter end-to-end pipeline times
0
Maintenance Burden
Platform team can focus on product

The Challenge

Cost Growth

GitHub-hosted runners became a significant line item in our platform budget.

Maintenance Burden

Keeping our workflows reliably green required an ongoing effort from our platform team.

Test Performance Degradation

Growing volumes of CPU-heavy tests caused long queues and ever slower execution times.

Developer Experience

Engineers were forced to wait for workflows to finish, impacting velocity and morale.

Why Coast Chose Namespace

Speed & Reliability

The speed and reliability of Namespace simply convinced us.

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Excellent Support

Very responsive, proactive, and collaborative throughout the PoC and implementation.

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Usage Insights

Dashboard insights help optimize usage and provide visibility.

"I did a demo for our full engineering team yesterday, and jaws were on the floor. I actually got asked what the catch was."
Zack Stayman, Lead Platform Engineer at Coast

Results and Impact

Performance

  • • 70% reduction in CI spend
  • • Dramatically shorter end-to-end pipeline times
  • • Stable, predictable builds even under peak load

Operational Efficiency

  • • Confidence to scale workloads without cost spikes
  • • Fine-grained cost and performance visibility
  • • Predictable infrastructure costs

Developer Experience

  • • Engineers regained productive hours
  • • Platform team focuses on product instead of infrastructure
  • • Improved developer velocity and morale

Conclusion

By working with Namespace, Coast didn't only increase efficiency but also developed a real partnership. The decision to switch to Namespace has proven transformative, with cost reduction and improved performance exceeding initial expectations. For financial services companies like Coast, where reliability and performance are paramount, Namespace has proven to be precisely the right solution.

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