Case Study

How Control Plane Unlocked Scalable Infrastructure and Cut Cloud Costs

Control Plane has transformed our development workflow with scalable infrastructure, seamless deployments, and honest, expert support. Their team feels like an extension of ours, proactive, transparent, and genuinely invested in our success.

Erik Krueger, CTO

Institution Snapshot

Institution

Printivity

Location

San Diego, CA

Industry

Printing Services

Printivity is a modern online printing company specializing in high-quality, customizable print products for businesses of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises. Known for their fast turnaround times, competitive pricing, and exceptional customer service, Printivity offers a wide range of products including booklets, business cards, catalogs, and signage. Their commitment to streamlined ordering, fast production, and customer satisfaction has made them a trusted partner for companies looking to elevate their brand through print.

Challenges Leading to Control Plane Exploration: Before Control Plane, the company dealt with disconnected systems, manual processes, and fragmented workflows. These issues led to inconsistent data flows, increased errors, and higher operational costs. As the business scaled, the lack of real-time visibility and system integration made it difficult to move quickly and deliver value.

Key Details

50+ hours of downtime avoided
Reduced cloud compute costs
Faster feature deployment
Scalable test and dev environments

Problem

Evolving Needs, Growing Complexity

Coordinating Disconnected Systems

Workflows across environments weren't fully aligned, which made coordination more complex and limited visibility across teams.

Room to Optimize Resource Usage

The team saw opportunities to improve how compute resources were allocated, especially to reduce unnecessary overhead as the system scaled.

Improving Development Velocity

Provisioning new environments took time, which occasionally created delays in testing and deploying new features.

As our systems matured, we needed a more cohesive way to manage workflows and scale infrastructure, without introducing more overhead.

Erik Krueger

CTO

Solution

Flexible Infrastructure, Tangible Impact

Streamlined DevOps with Scalable Infrastructure

Control Plane provided an integrated platform that allowed the team to rapidly spin up development and testing environments. This enabled faster feature testing, shorter release cycles, and greater agility overall.

Smart Resource Allocation = Real Cost Savings

With intelligent resource usage baked into the platform, the team optimized container utilization and cut unnecessary cloud costs. These savings were redirected toward high-impact business areas.

Exceptional Support and Transparency

Direct Slack access to Control Plane's technical team ensured rapid problem-solving and collaborative integration. The team appreciated Control Plane's honest guidance and dedication to tailoring the platform to their unique needs.

One of the things we've valued most is the honesty from Control Plane. When something wasn't ready, they said so. That level of integrity is rare.

Erik Krueger

CTO

Summary

By switching to Control Plane, the company reduced costs, eliminated infrastructure bottlenecks, and gained a trusted partner in scaling their engineering team's capabilities.

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