How Vandelay Industries Replaced their Dev Platform and Shipped 3x Faster
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A Not-so-Serious Case Study that's All Too Real
July 16, 2025
[While the following case study is entirely fictional, any resemblance to real companies, platforms, or painfully slow enterprise deployments is purely intentional.]
In early 2025, Vandelay Industries, a Fortune 1000 company with a reputation for shipping software slowly but steadily hit a wall.
They had:
- 200+ software teams
- 4 different CI/CD systems
- 7 internal tools teams building “developer portals”
- Hundreds of services and zero clarity on ownership
When compliance season rolled around, it felt like an archaeological dig just to understand how things got to prod.
So they did what many enterprises do: tried to build their way out.
They picked some open-source components, stood up a service catalog, duct-taped a few scripts, and called it an internal developer platform.
It mostly worked. Kind of.
But a year later:
- Onboarding new employees still took weeks
- Devs had to memorize bespoke workflows
- The “platform” had a backlog longer than most product teams
- And no one could quite agree on who was responsible when something broke
“Our internal developer platform became… a product. With its own roadmap, bugs, and outages. We didn’t want a new product. We just wanted to ship the one we were paid to build.”— George, Engineering Manager, Vandelay Industries
Enter: CodeCargo
Vandelay Industries flipped the script.
They replaced their cobbled-together DIY platform with CodeCargo — an AI-native developer experience layer that works with GitHub, not alongside it.
Within 30 days:
- Onboarding time dropped by 90% — new engineers had instant visibility into service ownership, pipelines, and infra
- CodeCargo Agents automated repetitive tasks: setting up preview environments, tagging releases, handling compliance checks
- Compliance scorecards showed real-time coverage across teams — no spreadsheets, no Slack chases
- Standardized GitHub Actions pipelines across apps, without writing the same YAML 80 times
But here’s the kicker: they didn’t need to build it.
They just plugged it in.
CodeCargo met their teams where they already lived — inside GitHub — and turned it into the control plane for delivery.
“CodeCargo made it feel like GitHub was built for the enterprise. Finally.”
The Result?
Vandelay Industries now ships software 3x faster with fewer errors, more consistency, and actual compliance.
Their internal tools teams went back to building things that matter, instead of maintaining glue code.
And their developers?
They stopped talking about the platform — because it just worked.
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CodeCargo Team
The CodeCargo team writes about GitHub workflow automation, developer productivity, and DevOps best practices.
