
[Carla](https://carla.se), a leading Swedish e-commerce marketplace for electric vehicles, was facing the challenge of scaling their infrastructure to support the fast-growing business.
Carla sought a solution that would allow them to scale efficiently without hiring infrastructure engineers.

### The Challenge

- Business growth driving increased infrastructure requirements and complexity
- Maintaining high-quality customer experiences during rapid growth
- Balancing meeting business needs and cost of hiring engineers

## Picking Encore and GCP as a solution

Carla discovered Encore, the development platform designed to simplify and streamline infrastructure management and backend development.
By migrating to Encore and using its tooling to deploy on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Carla was able to:

- Automate infrastructure provisioning and management, reducing time spent on manual tasks
- Seamlessly scale their platform to meet increasing customer demands
- Focus on innovation and improving their core product, rather than spend time on infrastructure maintenance

### The Results

Carla experienced a remarkable **10x ROI compared to hiring infrastructure engineers**.
With the help of Encore, Carla has been able to:

- Avoid the need to hire infrastructure engineers, saving on recruitment and salary costs
- Accelerate their development, achieving faster delivery of product improvements
- Maintain a high level of customer satisfaction as their business continues to grow

<CustomerQuote full_name="Daniel Stocks" title="CTO at Carla" picture_url="/assets/casestudies/danielcarla.jpg">

“Encore lets us scale both our product and infrastructure footprint, without additional hiring.
The ROI we've seen is outstanding, easily 10x.”

</CustomerQuote>

## Conclusion

Carla's cost-efficient and successful scaling of their product demonstrates the power of streamlined infrastructure management for growing businesses.
By leveraging Encore and deploying to GCP, Carla was able to avoid hiring infrastructure engineers, significantly reduce costs,
and maintain an exceptional customer experience during a period of rapid growth.

Scaling smart – Unlocking growth without hiring infra engineers

How Carla overcame scaling challenges without hiring infrastructure engineers, achieving 10x ROI with Encore

Scaling smart – Unlocking growth without hiring


[Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org), an innovative online book retailer connecting readers with independent booksellers globally,
 faced limitations from their legacy Ruby on Rails monolith. As the platform continued to grow,
  they sought a solution to enable efficient scaling and gradual migration to a more flexible microservices architecture.

### The Challenge

- Transitioning from a monolithic architecture to a modern and scalable microservices setup
- Reducing DevOps workload and achieving cloud cost efficiencies
- Ensuring a seamless migration process without disrupting customer experiences

## Picking Encore and GCP as a solution

Bookshop.org turned to Encore deployed to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the key to unlocking the benefits of microservices and modernizing their platform.
 With Encore, they have been able to:

- Incrementally migrate from their Ruby on Rails monolith to a Go-based microservices architecture using Encore, while still relying partially on the Rails stack
- Streamline infrastructure management using Encore’s declarative infrastructure SDK, ensuring control of cloud costs and minimizing DevOps workload
- Resolve bottlenecks by removing the need for systems experience to perform key tasks, leading to faster iterations
- Simplify management of development and staging environments, allowing for more confidence and quality when building microservices

### The Results

By adopting Encore, Bookshop.org have experienced significant improvements:

- DevOps workload reduced by **90%**
- Delivery speed improved by **2-3x**
- Cloud cost reduced to **$0** for preview apps, when using Encore Cloud

<CustomerQuote full_name="Mason Stewart" title="CTO at Bookshop.org" picture_url="/assets/casestudies/masonbookshop.jpg">

“DevOps workload has dropped by 90% for services migrated to Encore. Where before we might have spent a whole day or more dealing with Terraform,
 Kubernetes, GCP secrets, ingress, and load balancers, with Encore we’re now done in less than an hour.”

</CustomerQuote>

<CustomerQuote full_name="John Bannister" title="Senior Developer at Bookshop.org" picture_url="/assets/casestudies/johnbookshop.jpg" reversed>

"With less DevOps energy required to make changes – frankly none a lot of the time – we’ve become more confident in testing, evaluating and revising our approach to microservices."

</CustomerQuote>

## Conclusion

Bookshop.org's ongoing journey from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to a modern Go microservices architecture using Encore
 highlights the transformative power of the right development platform.

By using Encore, Bookshop.org has been able to control their cloud bill,
 drastically reduce DevOps workload, and achieve a drastically improved delivery speed.
 
This has allowed them to confidently and quickly iterate and develop their new microservices architecture.

Bookshop.org's migration from Ruby on Rails Monolith to Microservices

How Bookshop.org are unlocking scalability while reducing DevOps effort by 90%

From Ruby on Rails Monolith to Microservices with Encore


[Lizza](https://lizzapp.com/) (YC22) is a startup based in Mexico that is revolutionizing how businesses sell to their customers directly on social media platforms like Instagram or WhatsApp,
 by providing a suite of tools for payments, shipping, messaging and marketing.

## The Challenge: A limiting legacy monolith on Firebase

Before adopting Encore, Lizza’s e-commerce platform was built using Firebase. It had a large monolithic codebase, which over time had become disorganized, blurring the frontend and backend lines. This made new development slow and error-prone, ultimately making it hard to deliver features at speed while maintaining quality.

To solve this, the Lizza team wanted to move to a microservices architecture and refactor their existing application to implement a structure better suited for their domain. This meant overcoming several challenges:

- Transitioning from a monolithic architecture to a microservices architecture to better structure their application, without slowing down product development
- Managing the complexity of working with microservices, including observability and infrastructure management
- Avoiding the need to hire additional engineers to solely work on DevOps and infrastructure

## Picking Encore as a solution for building scalable and efficient microservices

Lizza turned to Encore as the solution to these challenges. With Encore, they were able to:

- Easily transition from a monolithic architecture to a microservices architecture, allowing for better structure and scalability
- Manage the complexity of working with microservices through Encore's observability and infrastructure management capabilities, without needing to hire additional engineers for DevOps
- Streamline infrastructure management using Encore's declarative Infrastructure SDK, reducing both cloud waste and DevOps workload
- Deliver high-quality microservices at a rapid pace, thanks to the simplified development process

### The Results

By adopting Encore, Lizza was able to achieve meaningful results:

- Increased delivery speed by **3x**
- Reduced time spent on DevOps by **100+ hours per month**
- Successful and timely migration from Firebase to Go-based microservices, without hiring dedicated DevOps engineers

<CustomerQuote full_name="Antonio Santiago Dueñas" title="CTO at Lizza" picture_url="/assets/casestudies/tonylizza.jpg">

“Lizza's backend team loves Encore! We can now deliver high-quality microservices super quickly. Encore lets us offload the microservices complexity and avoid hiring additional engineers to work on DevOps.”

</CustomerQuote>

## Conclusion

Lizza's successful migration, from a monolithic architecture on Firebase to a microservices architecture using Encore, highlights the transformative power of the right developer platform.

By leveraging Encore's streamlined approach, Lizza was able to manage the complexity of working with microservices and streamline infrastructure management, reducing both cloud complexity and DevOps workload.
This has allowed them to deliver new functionality at a rapid pace, ultimately paving the way for future growth and success.

How Lizza migrated from Firebase to Go Microservices with Encore

Lizza's success in rebuilding their architecture without slowing down product development

From limiting Firebase monolith to scalable Go microservices with Encore

## Building reliable software, quickly

[Skrym](https://skrym.se), an innovative Swedish logistics startup, was determined to build their product quickly and efficiently from the ground up. With a team lacking extensive cloud infrastructure experience, Skrym sought a solution that would provide security, stability, and best practices without diverting their focus from product development.

### The Challenge

- Building a reliable, scalable, and secure platform without extensive cloud infrastructure expertise
- Staying focused on product development while ensuring robust infrastructure management
- Implementing security and stability best practices without extensive manual work

## Picking Encore and GCP as a solution

Skrym chose Encore deployed to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the foundation for their platform, allowing them to:

- Build their product from the ground up with a secure and stable infrastructure
- Maintain a laser focus on delivering product quickly, without worrying about platform work
- Benefit from Encore's standardized approach, which provides security and stability best practices out of the box

### The Results

By building their product on Encore, Skrym experienced:

- Time spent on DevOps reduced by **85%**
- Speed of delivery increased by **2.4x**
- Enhanced confidence in their infrastructure's stability and security

<CustomerQuote full_name="Jakob Nordfeldt" title="CEO at Skrym" picture_url="/assets/casestudies/jakobskrym.jpg">

“Encore has been a game-changer, enabling our team to focus on product development without getting distracted by the complexity of cloud infrastructure.”

</CustomerQuote>

<CustomerQuote full_name="Max Danielsson" title="Product Manager at Skrym" picture_url="/assets/casestudies/maxskrym.jpg" reversed>

"Encore’s standardized solution for implementing microservices means we can trust that our platform is secure and reliable while rapidly shipping features to customers."

</CustomerQuote>

## Conclusion

Skrym's success in building a revolutionary logistics platform from scratch using Encore highlights the power of a streamlined infrastructure management solution for startups. By leveraging Encore's built-in security and stability best practices, Skrym was able to fast-track their product development and maintain focus on delivering exceptional value to their customers.

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