Case Study: Flyclops handles 100% growth without hiring a DBA on PlanetScale
Key results
The challenge
Flyclops, the studio behind a popular mobile dominoes game with millions of active monthly players, faced expensive AWS support it found inadequate and lacked tools for performance insights. It managed an aging dataset of more than 1.5TB spanning 11 years of legacy data and wanted to scale without hiring dedicated database administrators.
The solution
Flyclops migrated to PlanetScale for its MySQL compatibility, which required zero code changes, along with better support, memory-optimized instances, schema-change developer tools and automatic failover.
“When it comes down to it, PlanetScale is much cheaper than hiring DBAs, and that's something we couldn't ignore.”
DMDave MartoranaCo-owner & Partner, Flyclops
The results, in context
Flyclops reports handling 100% growth on PlanetScale without hiring a DBA, managing more than 1.5TB of data for millions of active monthly players. The team gained the developer tooling and support it needed, with capacity targeted at twice its current workload.