Case Study: Barstool Sports eliminates outages and cuts costs with PlanetScale

Barstool Sports cuts outage recovery to 15 minutes with PlanetScale

Barstool Sports, a major media and podcast platform, faced major outages and scaling issues with their Amazon Aurora database. Their serverless architecture required rapid scaling that Aurora couldn't match, and they lacked in-house DevOps expertise to manage these database challenges, leading to costly downtime. This prompted their search for a more powerful solution, leading them to the PlanetScale database.

By migrating to PlanetScale, Barstool Sports eliminated outages and achieved significant cost savings. The switch was completed in just 15 minutes during a critical outage, preventing millions of dollars in losses. PlanetScale's MySQL-compatible platform provided automatic scaling and handled their serverless demands without requiring DevOps expertise. The result was a 20-30% reduction in database costs and a reliable infrastructure that allows their team to focus on product development instead of database management.

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