Case Study: How Catalog Built a Scalable Streaming Music Platform with Northflank

Catalog is transforming artist-fan interactions through a self-publishing and audience engagement platform, incorporating a next-gen music streaming service and internet radio channels. To support their complex, CPU-intensive workloads and high-bandwidth streaming, they needed a flexible and developer-friendly backend that could also maximize the use of their existing cloud credits. By adopting Northflank's managed Kubernetes platform, Catalog overcame the limitations of traditional PaaS offerings, gaining a self-service infrastructure that supports complex CI/CD pipelines, high availability for HLS media streaming, and advanced CDN integration. Northflank's Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) approach enabled Catalog to optimize their Google Cloud credits, while supporting specialized workloads like HLS and ReadWriteMany volumes. This approach significantly improved developer productivity and operational efficiency, saving Catalog an estimated six months of engineering time. With Northflank, Catalog can easily iterate on their streaming features and scale their service without encountering operational hurdles, maintaining top-tier performance and enhanced listener engagement analytics through seamless Fastly integration.