The Challenge Businesses running servers in the mobile ad exchange sector often face extreme loads that consist of billions of requests and process terabytes of raw data each day. When processing this much data each day, it is crucial for an organization to have a stable infrastructure that can deliver the best uptime possible. Organizations […]

The Challenge When organizations are running their workloads on the cloud, they will begin to realize that controlling costs is crucial as workloads and infrastructure scale. While scaling is important, it does add a few complexities such as scheduling workloads across compute resources properly and downscaling to use only the resources that you need. These […]

The Data Place Seek Optimization for Google Cloud Workloads The Data Place development team has always been focused on using the infrastructure best tailored to their individual needs, but are particularly aware that optimizing infrastructure is a pivotal part of their business strategy. For their business, the team decided to use Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) […]

Developer Freedom Leads to Increased Agility but also Increased Cost Developer freedom is important to On the dot. The On the dot team have the ability to deploy and scale fast, yet this enhanced agility for the dev team comes with a trade-off: increasingly high costs. Don Tran, Head of Platform Services at On the […]

For the last 23 years, Walla!News has been running their workloads on-premise, managing the server hardware themselves. But with over 1.5 million active mailboxes, real-time broadcasts, and traffic that constantly scales, Asi, Walla!News’s CTO, decided that moving to the public cloud was inevitable. “We are a publisher in a dynamic and competitive environment which require […]

Cost Optimization is a priority, but time and complex architecture prove limiting ClearCare was founded in 2010, growing steadily over the course of the past seven years. After a $60M growth equity round of funding in 2016, usage spiked quickly. As a health-tech company, reliability is essential to their customers, so their DevOps team focused […]

Ensuring Efficiency for Mission Critical DRM Before VUALTO launched, the team were focused on making sure that their DRM solution would be scalable, reliable and cost-efficient. One tempting method of greatly improving cost-efficiency was spot instances, with prices as much as 90% lower than on-demand EC2. But there were a few issues: VUALTO could not […]

Leveraging spot in Dev, but what about Production? Demandbase, as a fast-growing company with many new features and product releases, always had an eye on their costs. “Our team knew that cloud costs could quickly get out of hand,” said Josh Schlanger, VP of DevOps at Demandbase. As part of their cost optimization efforts, Schlanger and […]

Saving Rungway 80% of their EC2 costs Rungway started as a small startup, that was in a need of its own infrastructure. Rungway searched for the best value for their money and like any other startup, they couldn’t afford to build their own Data Center. They thought the best available solution was running their workload […]