Saving 20-minutes in automated checks per deploy

At Prodigy, it's not atypical to have a dozen or so PRs merged a day. The problem we were facing is that we would have automated checks that run on our PRs before they can be merged.

We were running into situations where you're ready to merge, but you're out of date. So you hit the update button, these automated checks could take up to 20 minutes to run. After running, you may find that someone else has also been waiting to merge.There's the context switching of having to come back and wait.

We were looking for some automated solutions, and Aviator was able to provide that in in a nice way where you just tell it you're ready to merge, forget about it and it will let you know when it's done

The docs are pretty good. The one that helped me the most was the API docs, understanding what each field does. And I was able to go through field by field and decide which we needed.

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Aviator's positive impact is largely around that time savings and the context switching. Before, when you wanted to merge something but couldn't, you had to come back in 20 minutes to see if it was mergeable now. Maybe you would have to update and then come back later in the day.

With Aviator, you just tell Aviator you're ready to go and let it do its thing. I took a small internal survey after the implementation, and it basically improved everyone's lives.