Case Study: Whatnot makes secrets management 90% faster with Doppler

Key results

The challenge

Whatnot, a live-shopping marketplace, managed thousands of secrets spread across many systems, with engineers spending roughly five hours every week on secrets management. Manual secret updates took 10 to 15 minutes each.

The solution

Whatnot adopted Doppler's Secrets Manager with the CLI, GitOps workflows, RBAC, versioning, an AWS Secrets Manager integration and audit-log forwarding, making Doppler its single source of truth for secrets.

The results, in context

According to the case study, Whatnot made secrets and configuration management 90% faster and centralized more than 3,000 secrets across 14 systems. Engineer time spent on secrets dropped from about five hours per week to five hours or less per month, and manual secret updates moved to real-time automation.

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