FantaAmici, 250k users in 3 weeks: how to use the cloud to manage the load

More and more mobile apps are being developed using the cloud. But what are the actual advantages and disadvantages of this approach?

We delve into this topic with the case study of the FantaAmici app, which reached 250k active users in just three weeks. We will analyse together what problems we encountered during (and after) development and the solutions put in place to achieve a fully scalable but cost-optimised app.