Case Study: Acoustic saves $178K in engineering costs with WunderGraph Cosmo

Acoustic saves $178K with WunderGraph Cosmo

Acoustic, a marketing cloud platform serving over 3,500 brands, faced significant engineering challenges with their complex GraphQL gateway. Their Rust-based system required 30-minute builds, triggered full supergraph rebuilds on every change, and lacked critical features like authentication and rate limiting, which were estimated to cost $178,000 to build in-house. This led to slow development and frequent deployment issues.

By implementing WunderGraph Cosmo, Acoustic replaced their entire stack with a Go-based router, a schema registry, and visual tooling. The migration was smooth, requiring only a DNS update after a month of pre-production testing. This solution provided built-in rate limiting, taggable endpoints, and simplified rollbacks. WunderGraph's platform saved Acoustic an estimated $178,000 in initial engineering costs and eliminated ongoing maintenance for those features.

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