Case Study: Sittercity saves 40 hours/week and cuts hosting costs 60% with Google Cloud Platform

Sittercity Making child care finally work

Sittercity, a tech‑enabled childcare marketplace founded in 2001, faced growing pains as up to 1,500 new sitters signed up daily: managing Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters, slow manual photo reviews, and scalability limits threatened the customer experience. The company needed a more efficient, scalable platform to keep apps responsive and speed sitter onboarding.

Sittercity migrated to Google Cloud Platform using Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud AutoML Vision, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Stackdriver and DLP, with Agosto helping the lift‑and‑shift. The move cut container management time by ~40 hours/week, reduced hosting costs by 60%, automated photo quality checks at >90% accuracy (freeing two‑thirds of the review team and cutting photo publish time from two days to five minutes), and improved monitoring, security, and developer agility.

Sittercity

Sam de Freyssinet

Head of Technology