ÿÿ How Sphero handles massive traffic spikes with Netlify's scalable infrastructure

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Sphero

How Sphero handles massive traffic spikes with Netlify's scalable infrastructure

Sphero's Lead Developer Mathew De Goes built a high-performance brand site on Netlify to handle massive traffic spikes from their Star Wars BB-8 droid launch. The platform's scalable CDN infrastructure, pre-rendering capabilities, and diverse feature set enabled Sphero to serve terabytes of data daily while focusing on creating exceptional user experiences.

Not many startups get to have their product play a main role in the biggest movie franchise in World history. But that’s what happened for Sphero when they came up with BB8, the cool Star Wars droid.

That meant that when Sphero.com was being created, being able to handle huge traffic spikes serving terabytes a day in peak moments being able to smoothly cater a vast amount of users was the single most important thing.

It’s our choice for Netlify’s very first Site of the Week because it takes great advantage of being served from our custom built CDNs, and first and foremost because droids are awesome!

What is it?

Sphero.com is a data and user experience driven brand site which aims to delight, surprise and inform our customer base. We strive to make the site a balance of data driven user interactions, innovation of layout and design as well as a heavy dose of eye candy. Each page, section and user interaction is an symphony which combines market/competition research, ui/ux research and lovely crafted graphics from our design team. It’s only through such a carefully crafted experience that we can share our love of robots and connected play.

Why Netlify?

Simply put, Netlify lets us focus our energy on creating the brand site that our customers deserve, and that we need to grow our business. It solves so many both simple and complex problems, including scalable hosting, page pre-rendering, cache control, staging sites and so much more. When we selected Netlify it was not only the best solution for our needs, but also both reasonably priced and easy to implement. Plus your online documentation is a life saver.

Favorite Feature?

It’s hard to pick one thing, but I’d say the diversity of the platform. We actually use a Netlify to run a number of other services beyond our Brand site, and the ease of setup and high degree of performance has served us well.

Netlify Features UsedTools & Frameworks Used
RollbacksAngular
Continuous DeliveryJekyll
Branch DeploysGRUNT
Deploy ContextsContentful API
Asset Post ProcessingVero API
Domain AliasesSASS
Prerendering
Password Protection
Custom HTTP Headers
Redirect Rules
Rewrite Rules
Proxy Rules
Outbound Webhooks
Outbound Integrations
Git Integration
Cached Dependencies
Drag & Drop Deploy
Web UI
Deploy previews
HTTPS
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