Case Study: Comic Relief achieves scalable live fundraising with Cloud Foundry

Comic Relief scales fundraising to 400 donations per second with Cloud Foundry

Comic Relief, a UK-based charity, needed a new donations platform to handle the immense scale of its live fundraising telethons. Their existing platform was nearing its end of life, and they required a solution that could guarantee 100% performance reliability to process up to 400 donations per second from thousands of call center operators and concurrent web users. They engaged the vendor Armakuni to build this critical platform using Cloud Foundry.

Armakuni implemented a cloud-native solution built on the Cloud Foundry PaaS, deploying across multiple cloud providers for resilience. Their approach utilized microservices, continuous deployment, and everything-as-code to create a highly scalable and resilient platform. The result was an overwhelming success; the platform handles peak loads of 400 donations per second and can be deployed globally in 90 minutes. This was achieved by a team of just five people, significantly reducing build and run costs while providing Comic Relief with complete confidence in their mission-critical system.

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