Case Study: Quizlet achieves high-performance, reliable cloud scaling with Joyent

Quizlet - Customer Case Study

Quizlet, the world’s largest flashcards and study-games site, grew from 100 beta users in 2007 to 6 million monthly unique visitors and needed a cloud platform that ensured data reliability, near‑100% uptime, deep analytics for diagnosing latency, premium hardware, and fast, expert support to scale reliably and deliver fast page loads to a diverse, mobile user base.

Quizlet built its stack on the Joyent Cloud using SmartOS, Riverbed Stingray load balancers, Percona databases, and a cluster of web and search instances, leveraging ZFS for data protection and Joyent Cloud Analytics to find and fix performance bottlenecks. The result: no significant outages to date, an average response time of ~40 ms across ~100 million weekly requests, the ability to run the site on just three virtual web servers, and greater confidence in data safety and operational support.

Quizlet

Andrew Sutherland

Chief Technology Officer and Founder, quizlet