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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
The 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 The 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.
The 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.
Operational Impact
  • Orders of magnitude increase in development velocity
  • Seamless communication across services in AWS and GCP
  • Fault tolerant and horizontally scalable across all environments
Quantitative Benefit
  • 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
  • Reduced latency by more than half even while scaling the Podium platform

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