Coast
Coast offers a new solution to companies for managing fleet's expenses as well as a smart Visa fleet and fuel card.
“I did a demo for our full engineering team yesterday, and jaws were on the floor.
I actually got asked what the catch was.”
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
We evaluated different options on the market and decided to go ahead with Namespace.
The main differentiators and deciding factors for us in the end were:
Consistent Performance
The speed and reliability of Namespace simply convinced us.
Excellent Support
Very responsive, proactive, and collaborative - throughout the PoC and during the implementation.
Usage Insights
Dashboard insights directly help us optimize our usage.
Results and Impact
Dramatically shorter end-to-end pipeline times
Operational Efficiency
- Confidence to scale workloads without slowdowns
- Fine-grained cost and performance visibility
- Stable, predictable builds even under peak load
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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