10 Jun 2025 : From database burden to cloud efficiency: Sonar's journey to faster processing & lower costs

How do you cut cloud storage costs by 90% while migrating 3.4 TB of data from a single database table? 🤔

My team and I just did, and we’re pulling back the curtain on the multi-month project to transform SonarQube Cloud for better performance, scalability, and efficiency.

Check out Sonar’s blog for the deep dive into my team’s approach to problem-solving, validation, and making data-driven decisions at scale: https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/sonars-journey-to-faster-processing-lower-costs/

Co-author: Csaba Feher

Staff cloud platform engineer at Sonar