Case Study: happn achieves real-time global scalability with Google Cloud Platform

happn The app where immediacy and mobility meet

Happn, the Paris-based dating app founded in 2014, needed a more flexible infrastructure to support its real-time, hyper-local service as its user base grew internationally. Its previous hosting setup was too rigid, with fixed server reservations, delayed scaling, and limited ability to handle fluctuating demand. Happn turned to Google Cloud Platform, using services such as Compute Engine, BigQuery, and Cloud Pub/Sub.

Google Cloud Platform implemented a managed, scalable cloud environment and helped happn migrate tens of terabytes of data and applications with continuous synchronization. The switch caused less than 30 minutes of downtime, and happn now runs about 500 servers across GCP data centers. Google Cloud Platform also powers analytics and load balancing, helping happn support nearly 40 million registered users and 10 billion monthly requests while enabling faster launches, easier scaling, and less maintenance work for its engineering teams.

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Sébastien Preneta

Vice President of Engineering