Case Study: Stackify achieves developer empowerment and scalable SaaS agility with Microsoft Azure

Azure lets Stackify easily empower fellow developers

Stackify, founded in 2012 by Matt Watson, builds tools that let developers take ownership of daily operations without needing server access or heavyweight ops support. Facing a shift from traditional ops to agile teams that must troubleshoot, deploy, and optimize apps, Stackify created developer-focused SaaS solutions to reduce time spent on debugging and infrastructure management and now serves about 4,000 companies in more than 120 countries.

Stackify hosts its Prefix and Retrace APM products on Azure PaaS, using services such as Azure SQL Database, Table storage, Service Bus, Redis Cache, and Elasticsearch to ingest, process, store, and query large volumes of diagnostics data. The Azure-based architecture (multitenant databases with elastic pools, scalable queues and worker roles, and a move toward microservices) eliminated server administration, sped onboarding, enabled rapid scaling, and let Stackify focus on product innovation—improving developer productivity for customers and supporting continued business growth.

Stackify

Matt Watson

Founder and Chief Executive Officer