# How Recrowd uses Neon autoscaling to meet fluctuating demand

DevFeed: [How Recrowd uses Neon autoscaling to meet fluctuating demand](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-recrowd-uses-neon-autoscaling-to-meet-fluctuating-demand-5360.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/how-recrowd-uses-neon-autoscaling-to-meet-fluctuating-demand>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2024-03-01T16:35:34Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/autoscaling.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Azure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/azure.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>)

Tags: [applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applications.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autoscaling.md>), [azure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/azure.md>), [case-studies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/case-studies.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [crowdfunding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/crowdfunding.md>), [customer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/customer.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [resources](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resources.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how Recrowd uses Neon autoscaling to handle sharp traffic increases when new real-estate investment projects open. It contrasts automatic scaling with the manual MySQL-on-Azure process, which required resizing compute capacity, caused downtime, and wasted team time or resources.

## Source excerpt

"We use Neon for its great autoscaling capabilities. It allowed us to solve a huge problem with simple steps" Pieralberto Colombo, CTO at Recrowd Recrowd is Italy's leading crowdfunding platform, empowering small investors to participate in real estate projects with just a few cl...