Case Study: Briefly achieves faster, lower-cost HR platform performance with Cloud 66 containers

Briefly an intelligent and super fast HR platform powered by Cloud 66 containers

Briefly is an intelligent HR and hiring platform focused on the tech industry. As the startup grew, it needed a faster, more reliable, and London-based infrastructure than it had found with prior PaaS options like Nodejitsu, Modulus, and Heroku. Briefly turned to Cloud 66 to get the hosted infrastructure benefits it wanted while still maintaining control over its Docker-based stack.

With Cloud 66 containers, Briefly runs development, staging, and production environments consistently from the same Docker image, with builds and tests handled through Codeship and zero-downtime deployments triggered to Cloud 66. The results were significant: hosting costs dropped from about $900 a month to under $150, and API response times improved by 10–25 ms, reaching an average of around 15 ms. Cloud 66 also helped Briefly streamline operations with integrations like Slack and LogEntries.

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Alexander Christie

CEO