VRV by Ellation Share: YOPESO Score Awaiting client review n/a Date Published 8 March 2019 Reading Time 2-Minute Read VRV is the largest anime streaming services in the world. We’ve built VRV native apps for the living room devices and made part of the web dev team Context Ellation contracted Yopeso to help with their development and QA. Ellation owns Crunchyroll, which has a 30 million user base with 2 million paid subscribers. Ellation also launched VRV, another video streaming platform with several million subscribers as well. We helped them with development, QA and some DevOps aspects. The end result was that Ellation has acquired one of our offices. Our collaboration still continues to work with us on the pipeline & QA front. The Challenge The organisation was failing to deliver updates on their old platform and was very late in launching the new platform. The development environment was very chaotic and key stakeholders had zero visibility. Not all the organisation was supporting us. The information required to implement the reporting was difficult to structure, as the organisation was not in sync. Team Structure We started with a team of 6 in QA and around 5 developers, scaling up to 40 at peak. After the acquisition, we have a team of 6 in QA. We also continue to offer consultancy on Continuous Delivery & Pipeline implementation aspects. Our Achievements While ramping up our team we helped them transition to Jenkins 2.0 and implement continuous delivery. The pipelines are used to deliver up to 50 services bi-weekly. Although they do not use semantic versioning, we helped them to structure the deploy process, making sure the changes are visible and the transitions between human & machine are smooth. We structured and offered a blueprint for their QA process. QA included functional, regression, load & stress testing and security. On the security aspect, we automated most of the discovery phase and integrated them into security pipelines. The reporting we did was key for their VRV delivery as it provided the right visibility to the high-level managers. Our development teams were eventually acquired by Ellation.