Case Study: Crowdfire accelerates deployments and cuts costs with Kubernetes from Cloud Native Computing Foundation

How to keep iterating a fast-growing app with a cloud native approach

Crowdfire, a content publishing platform with 16 million users, faced challenges with scaling, slow deployment times, and a lack of self-healing capabilities as it grew. Its initial move to microservices on AWS Elastic Beanstalk was insufficient, prompting the need for a more robust cloud-native solution from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

The solution, built on Kubernetes implemented with Terraform and Ansible, drastically reduced deployment times from 15 minutes to under a minute and enabled 70 daily deployments, up from just 5. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's technology also provided 90% cost savings on load balancers and cut EC2 expenses by 50%, while improving system reliability and developer productivity.

Crowdfire

Amanpreet Singh

Software Engineer