World Congress 2023 • Sep 21, 2023

Scaling: from 0 to 20 million users

To survive 1.7 million concurrent connections, SofaScore abandoned the cloud. Discover how migrating from AWS to bare-metal servers slashed their infrastructure costs to just 0.8% of revenue.

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