As our application scaled in complexity and in adoption, we quickly realized that we'd be running into serious bottlenecks with RDS. We looked into scaling and complex replication options, but soon realized that it just would not make financial sense.

We are thankful to have found Heimdall at a time when scaling became a focus area for us. Heimdall's solution helped us dramatically reduce the direct reliance on RDS while simultaneously improving our platform's performance.

The biggest wins for us have been:
- Reduced our RDS costs by 55% (compared a year after implementation)
- Improved application performance by approximately 80%
- Having not a vendor, but a partner in the journey to effective and feasible scaling.

I am not sure how we would have been able to scale our platform without Heimdall, especially in the critical cash-strapped arena that often defines startups.

A huge bravo to Roland and Erik!

Heimdall's SQL-aware read/write splitting enabled us to use read replicas in our Aurora cluster very quickly with no application code changes required. Also their technical support spent a generous amount of time helping us get the configuration right for our use case. Thank you!

Heimdall helped us to utilize our RDS read replica, caching the queries. have full control of our DB tables in terms of caching balancing....
I highly recommend it for any system facing downtime or DB performance issues.