Case Study: Storify achieves 3x user growth and reliable, scalable performance with Joyent

Storify - Customer Case Study

Storify, a social-news platform that lets users curate social media into publishable stories used by major outlets, faced limits with its original cloud provider: performance and reliability issues (including load balancer caps that caused bottlenecks during the 2012 French elections), unpredictable traffic spikes around big news events, and concerns about the complexity of migrating infrastructure. The company needed a cloud that guaranteed low latency, high uptime, and help with a major migration.

Storify moved to Joyent for its Node.js expertise, faster disk/memory I/O, full VNIC control and automatic dynamic scaling. Joyent’s hands-on migration support and instant vertical scaling (instances can burst up to 400%) let Storify handle bursts without manual intervention, free the team to focus on product, and grow rapidly—serving three times more users in one year while maintaining performance and reliability.

Storify

Xavier Damman

Chief Executive Officer