This post is co-written with Hrvoje Lukavski from BMW Group, João Gonçalves and Jonas França from CTW.
BMW Connected Company, a division within BMW Group, develops and operates premium digital services for BMW Group’s connected vehicle fleet of over 24.5 million vehicles worldwide. Critical Techworks (CTW), established in September 2018, emerged from a partnership between BMW Group and Critical Group. CTW focuses exclusively on developing software for BMW Group’s future connected vehicle fleet and IT ecosystem, operating from offices in Braga, Lisbon, and Porto, Portugal.
In 2020, BMW Connected Company made a strategic decision to migrate its entire CI/CD infrastructure from on-premises to the AWS cloud with the goal of improving the availability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of its development toolchain.
Today, their Cloud Developer Platform (CDP), internally known as Orbit Spaceship, facilitates over 130,000 builds and…