Indonesian video service Vidio provides a scalable, reliable streaming platform with Aiven for PostgreSQL®.
Aiven makes setting up cloud databases so simple anyone can do it. Our set-it-and-forget-it solutions take the pain out of cloud data infrastructure.
After reviewing multiple options, the company turned to Aiven.
Vidio is now using Aiven for PostgreSQL®, a fully managed SQL database that can be deployed in any cloud. PostgreSQL is the company’s default choice for transactional data — such as user data, transactions, subscriptions and videos.
With Aiven, Vidio can deploy new services at a rapid pace.
“When there is a need to create a database for a new service, we know that we can spin it up in a few minutes with Aiven”, Librian says.
“Thanks to Aiven, we can now scale our databases to accommodate rapid fluctuations in user volume”, Librian explains. “This means we’ve been able to improve output and customer experience — while also gaining the ability to roll out new features at a much faster pace.”
Aiven shined during the early stages of the pandemic, especially when Vidio saw huge spikes in traffic (15x over a few hours) and their subscribers grew 3x in April.
“Database management used to be a huge bottleneck for us”, Librian adds. “We could scale our application servers, but we couldn’t scale our databases quite as easily. Now we are able to scale using multiple replicas. It takes only two clicks to add a new replica on Aiven.”
In fact, Vidio is able to practically scale its databases in real time with Aiven.
“We configure our backend application to connect to replicas for read-only requests (http GET requests)”, says Librian. “Then we use a client-side/sidecar proxy to load balance the connections to multiple replicas. When we need more capacity, we can spin up a new replica, attach it to the discovery mechanism, and HAProxy will be able to pick it up in less than 10 seconds. It works seamlessly without restarting the backend services or the proxy.”
To their satisfaction, the developers haven’t had any issues with capacity and scalability since using this technique with Aiven.
“Now that we are able to scale our databases, we are more confident to run big events and no longer worry about the customers’ complaints”, Librian says.
In addition, Vidio benefits from Aiven’s rapid response support.
“We really enjoy Aiven’s hands-on customer support. It’s a much better experience than what we’ve seen with other big cloud vendors”, Librian says.
For Librian and the rest of the team at Vidio, Aiven is proving to be a key partner.
“We know that we can count on Aiven”, says Librian. “We’ll use them for existing and new databases as we continue to grow.”
"We really enjoy Aiven’s hands-on customer support. It’s a much better experience than what we’ve seen with other big cloud vendors."
Andy Librian
Technical Expert
