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Blitz migrated from Postgres and Elixir to Rust and ScyllaDB, cutting latency, costs, and 100+ cores down to four cloud nodes.
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Blitz rebuilt its League of Legends backend to handle massive write-heavy workloads and real-time game overlays. The team migrated from Postgres and Elixir to Rust and ScyllaDB Cloud, eliminated Riak and most Redis usage, and replaced 100+ cores of microservices with just four Google Cloud nodes. The result: lower latency, 5K ops/sec at under 20% load, simpler ops, and reduced infrastructure costs.