Case Study: Springer Nature reduces deployment time from weeks to minutes with Cloud Foundry

Springer Nature Reduces Deployment Time From Weeks To Minutes with Cloud Foundry

Springer Nature, the global scientific, scholarly, professional, and educational publisher, needed a flexible way to unify development and deployment after a major merger brought together multiple businesses, systems, and teams. The company’s challenge was to modernize legacy applications, support a growing global developer base, and improve deployment speed without adding staff complexity. Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) was selected as the foundation for global application deployment.

Using Cloud Foundry, Springer Nature standardized application delivery across teams and cloud environments, enabling microservices, self-service deployment, and consistent operations on infrastructure including OpenStack, VMware, and AWS. The results were dramatic: deployment time dropped from weeks to minutes, uptime improved, and production changes to key channels like SpringerLink are now pushed multiple times a day. Springer Nature also scaled from zero to 1,200 apps in about a year, while supporting over 200 developers across 20 teams.

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Daniel Otte

Head of Platform Engineering