Case Study: Bamboo Relay achieves 100% infrastructure uptime and eliminates overnight on-call with Alchemy

Bamboo Relay needed dependable infrastructure so engineers could sleep at night

Bamboo Relay, a leading 0x and bZx relayer that hosts an off‑chain order book allowing users to trade, lend, and borrow ERC20 tokens, faced brittle self‑managed infrastructure—nodes crashing, disk space filling, and blockchain data corruption—that could take up to five hours to resolve and often woke engineers at night. To address this, Bamboo Relay moved its blockchain infrastructure to Alchemy, using Alchemy’s managed node and API services (including support for Enhanced APIs).

Alchemy’s managed infrastructure removed the need for manual node recovery, delivering zero infrastructure‑related downtime and saving roughly five hours per incident; Bamboo Relay reports 100% uptime, handles 168k+ daily ETH queries, and no longer needs engineers on call overnight. By relying on Alchemy, Bamboo Relay freed engineering time to focus on new user experiences and scale its relayer (they even built a subprovider to emulate Alchemy’s Enhanced APIs for local testnets).

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