Case Study: Digital Chocolate achieves 50% infrastructure cost reduction and reliable high performance with Joyent

Digital Chocolate - Customer Case Study

Digital Chocolate, founded by Trip Hawkins in 2003, is a leading social and mobile games publisher with hits like Galaxy Life and Rollercoaster Rush. Rapid growth in daily active users strained its existing cloud setup: sudden bandwidth spikes and rigid service models drove up infrastructure costs, threatened per-game profitability, and left the company needing instant scalability, high performance, and flexible pricing for iterative load testing.

Digital Chocolate piloted and then migrated its portfolio to Joyent Cloud, gaining deeper visibility, granular control, and predictable costs. The move cut infrastructure spending by about 50%, delivered reliable high-performance uptime, and provided the flexibility and support the company needed to scale games more profitably.

Digital Chocolate

Jason Loia

Chief Operations Officer