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	SoulCycle Spins Up Kong to Power its Podium Platform

SoulCycle Spins Up Kong to Power its Podium Platform

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence Predictive Maintenance
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	SoulCycle, a leading fitness market leader with more than 50,000 riders a week attending classes, was facing challenges due to its monolithic architecture which was a critical bottleneck to service development and scalability. With aggressive growth targets, SoulCycle needed to leverage technology to better integrate with partners and enable expansion into new business models. To address these challenges, Jason Rodriguez, VP of Engineering, and his team created the SoulCycle Podium Platform to support agile development for all internal and externally-facing applications. As part of this transition, Rodriguez and his team quickly realized the need for an API platform that could efficiently support SoulCycle’s more than 30 services, utilities, and monoliths across multiple clouds at scale. Read More
About Customer	SoulCycle is a fitness market leader that offers cycling-based fitness classes across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The company has more than 50,000 riders a week attending classes. With aggressive growth targets, SoulCycle needed to leverage technology to better integrate with partners and enable expansion into new business models. However, SoulCycle’s monolithic architecture presented a critical bottleneck to service development and scalability. To address these challenges, Jason Rodriguez, VP of Engineering, and his team created the SoulCycle Podium Platform to support agile development for all internal and externally-facing applications. Read More
Solution	To enable seamless coordination between its traditional and cloud-native service architectures, SoulCycle turned to Kong Enterprise to serve as its Kubernetes ingress and API gateway. Using Kong gives engineers control to write custom logic within their plugin architecture, making the transition from legacy systems to microservices easier. Kong Enterprise now handles ingress for Kubernetes and sits in front of all of SoulCycle's services. This has allowed SoulCycle to go from pushing five to six releases to production per week with their legacy system to more than 650 releases within the past 30 days alone on Podium. Kong offered SoulCycle the ability to unify services across clouds, which gave them the flexibility to build new services iteratively and how they wanted without fear of cloud lock-in. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

SoulCycle, a leading fitness market leader with more than 50,000 riders a week attending classes, was facing challenges due to its monolithic architecture which was a critical bottleneck to service development and scalability. With aggressive growth targets, SoulCycle needed to leverage technology to better integrate with partners and enable expansion into new business models. To address these challenges, Jason Rodriguez, VP of Engineering, and his team created the SoulCycle Podium Platform to support agile development for all internal and externally-facing applications. As part of this transition, Rodriguez and his team quickly realized the need for an API platform that could efficiently support SoulCycle’s more than 30 services, utilities, and monoliths across multiple clouds at scale.

About Customer

SoulCycle is a fitness market leader that offers cycling-based fitness classes across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The company has more than 50,000 riders a week attending classes. With aggressive growth targets, SoulCycle needed to leverage technology to better integrate with partners and enable expansion into new business models. However, SoulCycle’s monolithic architecture presented a critical bottleneck to service development and scalability. To address these challenges, Jason Rodriguez, VP of Engineering, and his team created the SoulCycle Podium Platform to support agile development for all internal and externally-facing applications.

Solution

To enable seamless coordination between its traditional and cloud-native service architectures, SoulCycle turned to Kong Enterprise to serve as its Kubernetes ingress and API gateway. Using Kong gives engineers control to write custom logic within their plugin architecture, making the transition from legacy systems to microservices easier. Kong Enterprise now handles ingress for Kubernetes and sits in front of all of SoulCycle's services. This has allowed SoulCycle to go from pushing five to six releases to production per week with their legacy system to more than 650 releases within the past 30 days alone on Podium. Kong offered SoulCycle the ability to unify services across clouds, which gave them the flexibility to build new services iteratively and how they wanted without fear of cloud lock-in.

Impact #1	Orders of magnitude increase in development velocity
Impact #2	Seamless communication across services in AWS and GCP
Impact #3	Fault tolerant and horizontally scalable across all environments

Impact #1

Orders of magnitude increase in development velocity

Impact #2

Seamless communication across services in AWS and GCP

Impact #3

Fault tolerant and horizontally scalable across all environments

Benefit #1	Went from pushing five to six releases to production per week with their legacy system to more than 650 releases within the past 30 days alone on Podium
Benefit #2	Reduced latency by more than half even while scaling the Podium platform

Benefit #1

Went from pushing five to six releases to production per week with their legacy system to more than 650 releases within the past 30 days alone on Podium

Benefit #2

Reduced latency by more than half even while scaling the Podium platform

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SoulCycle Spins Up Kong to Power its Podium Platform

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