Case Study: SportMonks achieves zero downtime and 600M API requests/week with Laravel Cloud

SportMonks handles 600M API requests a week with Laravel

Sportmonks, a Netherlands-based sports data API company, faced significant infrastructure challenges as it scaled. Their platform, built on Laravel, was managed by a single contractor and suffered from recurring downtime and API crashes, especially during weekend sports matches. This unreliability threatened their relationships with enterprise customers who depended on their data.

By migrating 12 applications to Laravel Cloud, specifically the Laravel Private Cloud, Sportmonks implemented a fully managed solution. The vendor provided autoscaling, managed queues, and integrated services like PlanetScale and ElastiCache. The result was zero infrastructure failures since migration, the ability to handle 600 million API requests per week, and reclaimed weekends for the engineering team, who no longer need to manually manage the platform.

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