Case Study: ShortStack achieves high availability and faster app performance with Clustrix

Shortstack Facebook Promos Made Easy

ShortStack is a SaaS platform that helps organizations build and run rich Facebook apps, contests and promotions. Built on Ruby on Rails and originally hosted on Heroku with Postgres and Redis, ShortStack’s rapid growth made the database the critical bottleneck — they needed fault tolerance, seamless scale-out to handle traffic spikes, and better uptime after a prolonged AWS/Heroku outage highlighted Postgres’ limits.

ShortStack migrated its database to ClustrixDB delivered via BlueBox’s DBaaS, with two geographically separated clusters for disaster recovery; Clustrix handled compatibility and a smooth migration with minimal downtime. The result was a noticeably faster, more responsive app, higher availability during peak traffic, reduced churn risk and a clear improvement in operational reliability.

ShortStack

Doug Churchill

Lead Developer, ShortStack