Case Study: DriveDev achieves 10x RDS scalability and 100% uptime with ScaleArc

DriveDev Deploys ScaleArc to Help Large Gaming Customers Achieve 10x Scalability

DriveDev, a Santa Cruz–based DevOps and operations consultancy, was tasked with supporting the launch of a social network for a blockbuster game and had to plan for 10x growth on an AWS RDS backend. RDS’s scalability, availability and lack of real‑time visibility threatened SLAs, so DriveDev needed 99.99% uptime, rapid scale without application changes, and analytics to detect performance or network anomalies.

DriveDev deployed ScaleArc’s database load‑balancing software to transparently proxy and cache queries, multiplex connections, perform read/write split and provide replication‑aware dynamic load balancing and real‑time analytics. The result: 10x scalable RDS capacity with no app changes, continued uptime during AWS zone outages, ~30% reduction in write load, dramatically faster read performance (up to 60x reported), faster development cycles, lower infrastructure OPEX and payback within months.

DriveDev

Aaron Lee

CTO