Case Study: TunnelBear speeds up deploys 10x with Netlify

How TunnelBear Streamlines DevOps and Speeds up Deploys by 10x with Netlify

TunnelBear, the team behind the TunnelBear VPN and RememBear password manager, needed a faster, more controlled way to manage website deploys and site infrastructure. Before Netlify, their engineering team relied on third-party help to spin up Node servers and maintain complex NGINX rules, which slowed down releases and made it harder to move quickly.

Using Netlify’s High Performance Builds, High Performance Edge, rewrites, proxies, and branched deploys, TunnelBear was able to take control of its deploy process and site architecture. Netlify helped cut build and deploy time from 10 minutes to 1 minute, a 10x speed improvement, while also enabling faster staging setup, reducing dependence on other teams, and giving engineers more flexibility to scale and manage production confidently.

Tunnelbear

Jared Krause

Engineer