# The Whop & Chop: Cutting CI time in half

- URL: https://evilmartians.com/events/whop-and-chop-sf-ruby-meetup
- Date: 2025-08-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Conference: SF Bay Area Ruby Meetup
- City: San Francisco, California, United States
- Speakers: Irina Nazarova
- Event website: https://lu.ma/sfruby
- Video: https://youtu.be/IMAABWxnbUM?si=tDih3uE2BGudd1sA&t=8086
- Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/player/d322f593d21c41f9abe7ea65e17c42cd

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Recently, Martians were tasked to resolve the slow CI for the fast-paced startup building on Ruby on Rails and Next.js, the genZ commerce platform, Whop.com. We noticed that the team was already using our open-source toolbox, TestProf, so we gave it another shot. A small change led to a 50% reduction in CI time. What was next?