PlanetScale × Barstool Sports
PlanetScale x Barstool Sports, eliminating million-dollar outages in 15 minutes
Cut over in 15 minutes during a live Aurora outage
Nightly AWS dashboard checks to never thinking about the database
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Why it works
The story earns its Resilience tag by anchoring on a live crisis moment: a production Aurora outage during a trial that forced an immediate permanent switch. The 15-minute cutover under fire is a concrete, memorable proof point that validates the product's reliability claim better than any benchmark could. The 20-30% cost saving adds an Efficiency layer but the headline is clearly about surviving and escaping a dangerous dependency.
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Run the new vendor concurrently during the trial so a real production failure becomes the final proof of concept, turning a crisis into a conversion story.
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