Case Study: Kurier achieves 5x more deployments, 66% cost reduction and near‑100% uptime with Platform.sh

Austrian publishing giant Kurier accelerates development, restores work/life balance

Kurier, a Vienna‑based publishing giant behind Kurier.at (about 5 million monthly uniques and 200 articles a day), struggled with a development team split between product work and time‑consuming DevOps tasks. CTO Adam Zielinski found himself tied to monitoring and manual operations—SSL updates, outages and slow environment provisioning—so Kurier chose Platform.sh as their platform‑as‑a‑service (PaaS) to refocus engineers on shipping features.

Platform.sh automated environment provisioning (YAML‑driven), removed in‑house operations, and introduced a feature‑branch model so developers and editors could spin up protected test sites instantly. The change delivered measurable gains: 25% improvement in developer productivity, 5x more deployments per person, 3x more throw‑away branches than staff, a 90% reduction in provisioning time, 66% lower costs, rebuilds cut from 30–60s to 1–2s, and nearly 100% uptime—plus 24x7 support from Platform.sh.

Kurier

Adam Zielinski

Chief Technology Officer