Why CircleCI? In mid-2016, the City of San Diego launched DataSD, a Drupal-based portal hosted by a vendor and allowing citizens to access and download data about city operations, revenue, licensing, permits and more. In February 2017, the city replaced this portal with a custom-built Jekyll- based portal. The city’s chief data o cer, Maksim Pecherskiy, uses CircleCI to deploy changes to the portal several times a day, while also keeping infrastructure to a minimum. “Going with CircleCI meant that we made a small investment upfront to make sure our systems run automatically,” Pecherskiy says. “That’s much better than us deploying ourselves, possibly making mistakes, and causing a lot of stress.” The Challenge The website data.sandiego.gov is updated multiple times a day. When data is upda

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