Company
Date Published
Author
Joe Zhou
Word count
984
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Sharp App, a sports betting platform, was struggling with latency issues due to its Redis setup. The team evaluated various alternatives and chose Dragonfly, which significantly reduced latency by 85% and boosted throughput. Dragonfly's vertical scaling capability allowed Sharp App to consolidate workloads onto a single high-performance instance, eliminating the need for clustering. The migration process proved smooth, taking under a day to complete, with minimal configuration adjustments required. After switching to Dragonfly, Sharp App achieved lower overall latency, higher throughput, and simplified infrastructure, ensuring users never miss a profitable opportunity.