Company
Date Published
Author
Noam Zilberman, JFrog Sr. Director of Engineering Productivity/DevX
Word count
1262
Language
English
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None

Summary

Since its founding in 2008, JFrog initially hosted its development environments on-premises, but as the demand for faster deployment, high quality, and reduced hosting costs grew, the company transitioned to JFrog SaaS Production in 2022. This migration aimed to enhance uptime, development productivity, and cost efficiency, resulting in uptime improvements from 92-96% to 99.9% and a 50% reduction in hosting costs. The process involved significant data transfer automation, increasing from 50 terabytes to 850 terabytes over seven months. Key takeaways from the migration include the importance of freeing up resources for innovation, carefully considering the volume of data to be migrated, and ensuring detailed planning, monitoring, and communication throughout the process. JFrog's experience also highlighted the need for thorough pre-migration housekeeping to avoid unnecessary data transfer and post-migration maintenance challenges.