Case Study: PropFuel achieves safer MySQL scaling and better support with PlanetScale

MySQL expertise as an extension of your team

PropFuel is a conversational engagement platform for member-based organizations that was running on Amazon RDS before switching to PlanetScale. As a small engineering team with Cameron Aubuchon serving as the only technical team member, PropFuel struggled with 24/7 database administration, downtime, and poor support, and lacked visibility into query performance.

PlanetScale provided PropFuel with a MySQL database, responsive expert support through Slack, and Insights for tracking live query behavior. The migration took about two weeks despite a manual process, and the results included zero-downtime confidence for schema changes, better performance tuning, and improved operational reliability, with Cameron able to identify rare queries and make database changes with much less risk.

PropFuel

Cameron Aubuchon

Co-founder and CTO