How Magic Circle Scaled Up To 2M Games With Cloudflare and Neon

Magic Circle is a game studio that helps users connect with friends online through multiplayer games available on the web and inside Discord. They are scaling quickly and need to test and merge code frequently due to their high shipping frequency. To achieve this, they use Neon branches as a game changer for quick testing and merging. Their entire infrastructure is designed to be lightweight and cost-efficient, combining Cloudflare and Neon to facilitate millions of game sessions and requests at a fraction of the traditional setup's cost. They bring fast software lifecycles to gaming by using a rapid iteration strategy that enables them to ship updates multiple times a day with zero downtime. Magic Circle uses Neon branches to iterate quickly on features, fix bugs, or test database schema changes, allowing them to frequently ship entirely new games in under a week.