Case Study: Tripshare achieves scalable, cost-effective cloud control with Joyent

Tripshare - Customer Case Study

Tripshare is a San Francisco startup that turns travel planning into a social, collaborative iPad app, letting organizers create, share and book itineraries with input from others. Faced with rapid, unpredictable growth (10,000 downloads during its first "New and Noteworthy" listing) the team needed a public cloud that offered flexibility, control over machines, predictable pricing, and preconfigured technologies like MongoDB—plus a partner that would work with them, not just host them.

Joyent provided SmartOS-based instances with pre-installed MongoDB, Riverbed Stingray load balancing, and tools to size and resize machines on demand, giving Tripshare dynamic scaling and high performance without heavy over-provisioning. The result: saved engineering time getting to market, reliable handling of traffic spikes, affordable access to best-in-class cloud components, and confidence that the platform can grow with the company (17,000 downloads to date).

Tripshare

Eric Kapke

CTO