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Performance Consumer app 2024

Cutting cloud spend 41% without losing headroom

A focused performance and capacity program that cut the cloud bill by 41% while traffic grew.

−41%
cloud cost
2.4M
daily users
−55%
compute

## The challenge
Cloud spend was growing faster than revenue, and nobody could say which services were the culprits.

## What we did
- Instrumented cost per request with Prometheus and per-team showback.
- Right-sized workloads and introduced event-driven autoscaling with KEDA.
- Rewrote two hot-path services in Go, halving their footprint.

## Outcome
The bill dropped 41% even as daily users climbed past 2.4M — headroom up, cost down.

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