Case Study: Scalr achieves drastic maintenance-cost reduction and scalable social mobile video app deployment with Altoros

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A start-up set out to build a new social mobile app that lets players play Charades by exchanging short video clips on Android and iOS, and needed fast, highly scalable storage and cloud orchestration to handle predicted growth (10,000 downloads in week one and up to 4,000,000 users in eight months). The company engaged Altoros to refine the draft specification and design a cost‑efficient, cloud‑native architecture using Scalr for cloud management and Couchbase for high‑performance, scalable data storage on AWS.

Altoros implemented server templates, monitoring and an auto‑scaling script that adjusts capacity based on machine start time, server and network load, and disk space, integrating Couchbase for video storage and Scalr/Amazon EC2 for pay‑as‑you‑go scaling. As a result, Altoros delivered a tested system that automatically scales up and down, simplifies management, and drastically reduced application maintenance costs while meeting the startup’s rapid growth projections.

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