Case Study: MyFitnessPal achieves scalable database management and real-time visibility with PlanetScale Managed Vitess

MyFitnessPal chose PlanetScale to focus on their data, not the database

MyFitnessPal, the world’s largest health and nutrition data source, needed a better way to manage rapid database growth and reduce the burden on its engineering team. After moving from MySQL servers to clustered Percona servers and then Amazon RDS, the company still struggled with maintenance, schema changes, and downtime risk, which pulled valuable staff away from product work.

MyFitnessPal switched to PlanetScale Managed Vitess to offload database operations, enable zero-downtime schema changes, and gain expert support. With PlanetScale, the team reports greater speed and confidence in deploying changes, better visibility through Insights with 100% query capture, and a path toward real-time analytics with Connect, helping them focus on customers instead of database servers.

MyFitnesspal

Chris Karper

Engineering Director