<p>CloudBees, Inc. today announced that Lose It! has selected the CloudBees Platform to manage its Java application infrastructure for the company's Lose It! weight-loss app. As crowds of people start executing on New Year's resolutions to get more fit, Lose It! will scale up its infrastructure to handle tens of thousands of transactions per minute - all with no system administrators.</p><p>Using the CloudBees Platform, Lose It! manages as many as 25,000 transactions per minute from users all over the world. The weight-loss application, used by several million people, drives results that have helped the Lose It! user community to lose more than 14,000,000 pounds.</p><p>"The early part of each year is one of our busiest times, as people strive to achieve their New Year's resolutions to lose weight. That seasonal spike puts additional load on our application," said Charles Teague, CEO, Lose It!. "However, with the CloudBees PaaS, we have instant scalability and access to the Java computing resources we need, when we need them. Because we only pay for what we use, we also have much lower infrastructure maintenance costs than we would have if we were maintaining the infrastructure ourselves.</p><p>"Off-loading the technical back-end work to CloudBees enables our team members to direct all their efforts towards one objective - developing, deploying and enhancing an innovative application that helps people lose weight. Our developer productivity has increased and our deployment process has been streamlined. Sometimes we deploy multiple times per day, and we do this easily, with just a few clicks," said Teague.</p><p><a href="http://geeks.broadwayworld.com/article/CloudBees-Platform-Powers-Lose-It-Weight-Loss-Application-Helping-Customers-Get-in-Shape-after-Holidays-20130107">Keep reading...</a></p>