How Inc. Magazine uses Buddy to test & deploy its websites

Buddy
2 min readJul 5, 2018

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inc. magazine is an established American magazine founded in 1979 in New York devoted to new businesses and startups. It’s best known for its annual lists of 500 and 5000 fastest-growing privately-owned companies. It’s also using Buddy to automate its website delivery.

We use Buddy for deploying & testing our main project ‘inc.com’ on our staging server as well as some automated tasks and things when pushing to production
– says John Guaragno, Lead Developer at Inc.

There are also dev site projects with a pipeline that syncs 1 remote MySQL server db with another-turning what used to be a painful chore for some of our devs into literally the press of a button:

Inc. also runs some microsite projects, like ‘women.inc.com’. Those are for their Wordpress installs with 2 pipelines that handle full sync to the development server, and another that actually flattens them to.html and pushes them over to production.

I know I’ve put a lot of effort into getting Buddy setup just right for our needs – says John – and I’m sure there are tons of improvements to make and features we can take advantage of. So far though, it’s paid off immensely. You guys keep adding awesome things and I have to keep trying them out!

Thanks for kind words John, we won’t disappoint you!

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