Case Study: AppLovin achieves scalable, secure infrastructure handling billions of requests with Chef

Scaling and Securing Infrastructure Handling Billions of Requests a Day

AppLovin builds technology that helps mobile game developers grow and reach more players. Facing a competitive landscape and handling billions of requests per day, the company needed a robust, consistent, and secure on‑premises infrastructure for configuration management that could reliably scale and let systems move quickly to support developers’ marketing and growth needs.

AppLovin adopted Chef and a test‑driven automation approach to standardize deployments and automate processes across diverse applications and environments. The result was an automated, fast‑adapting infrastructure: node initialization and related operations increased tenfold, infrastructure was secured with little to no overhead, and teams leveraged Ruby to create custom plugins thanks to Chef’s flexible domain language.

AppLovin

Joseph Milla

Operations Engineer