Case Study: DataStax achieves 59% performance improvement and mitigates outage risk with FusionAuth

DataStax Improves Performance by 59%, Optimizes Customer Experience With FusionAuth

DataStax, provider of DataStax Academy training and product downloads, faced an urgent authentication crisis when Stormpath was shut down and they needed to migrate without risking a large-scale outage or forcing password resets. They selected FusionAuth for its low-latency, hands-on migration support and identity features, including a custom Stormpath Import Tool and compatibility with their Drupal module.

FusionAuth built the Stormpath Import Tool, ported the Drupal integration, and implemented Application Authentication Tokens so DataStax could test and cut over quickly; the migration completed in under 10 minutes. As a result, FusionAuth reduced API calls by 50%, halved perceived load time (from ~2.3s to under 1.1s), improved overall performance by 59%, and saved roughly three months of development time (about $150,000).

DataStax

Arlen Thurber

Software Engineer