Carla, a leading Swedish e-commerce marketplace for electric vehicles with an annual revenue of $50M+, 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 on a major cloud provider, without hiring dedicated infrastructure and DevOps 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 the Encore platform and GCP as a solution

Carla discovered the Encore platform, the development platform designed to simplify and streamline infrastructure management and backend development. By migrating to the Encore platform 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: $200k+ annual saving and 10x ROI compared to hiring infrastructure engineers

Carla reports a remarkable 10x ROI compared to hiring infrastructure engineers, realising an annual saving of over $200,000 on headcount costs. With the help of the Encore platform, Carla has been able to:

• Avoid the need to hire dedicated 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

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

“The local development is awesome, I just run 'encore run' and then I have locally what we actually have in production.”

Conclusion

Carla's cost-efficient and successful scaling of their product demonstrates the power of streamlined infrastructure management for growing businesses. By leveraging the Encore platform and deploying to GCP, Carla was able to avoid hiring dedicated infrastructure engineers, saving over $200,000 anually. All this while maintaining an exceptional customer experience during a period of rapid growth.