Case Study: Chess.com saves $400K annually with Redpanda

Chess.com saves $400K annually with Redpanda

Chess.com, the leading online chess platform with over 200 million users, faced escalating costs and limited growth with its previous event streaming provider, Confluent. The company required a highly scalable and available data backbone to handle over 10 million daily games but found Confluent to be exorbitantly expensive and lacking an offering that could run within its own Google Cloud Platform infrastructure without costly network overage charges.

By implementing Redpanda's Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) solution, Chess.com seamlessly migrated its data platform. This allowed the company to more than double its streaming capacity while eliminating network overages. The switch to Redpanda resulted in annual savings of over $400,000, a reduction of at least 40% in costs, and provided the predictable, infinite scale needed to accelerate feature development and handle massive traffic spikes.

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