Case Study: Community achieves scalable messaging platform and faster feature development with PlanetScale

Community scales messaging to millions of users with PlanetScale

Community, a platform connecting brands and celebrities with audiences via text messaging, faced the challenge of scaling their infrastructure to handle billions of messages. Their original NoSQL database, Apache Cassandra, lacked the flexibility for rapid schema changes and joins. They needed a hosted, scalable relational database solution and chose PlanetScale to meet these demands.

By migrating to PlanetScale's cloud database, Community gained the ability to easily change schemas, perform joins, and shard their data indefinitely without managing infrastructure. This resulted in a significant increase in engineering velocity, allowing the team to ship features faster. PlanetScale provided explicit control over sharding and eliminated the previous need for engineers to spend time managing the database, giving the business the scalability and flexibility it needed to grow.

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