Case Study: Giist Social achieves effortless cloud-native deployment with Akka

Giist Social aims to detox the social media landscape with Akka

Giist Social wanted to “detox” social media by giving users more control over content discovery instead of algorithm-driven feeds, but it needed a way to build and scale the platform without getting bogged down by infrastructure. The team chose Akka, Lightbend’s platform for building and deploying cloud-native applications and APIs, to simplify deployment and let them focus on the product idea rather than operations.

With Akka, Giist Social was able to remove infrastructure complexity, scale automatically, and maintain high availability with minimal maintenance. The deployment was described as “basically a non-event,” and the team reported they rarely had to interact with Google Cloud Platform beyond checking logs. Akka also supported their Scala-based development and responsive support, helping Giist Social move from a free trial to a paid subscription while building a system designed to scale with user demand.

Giist Social

Mauricio Aristizabal

Founder and CEO