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The Biggest Surprise Was the Support | Minga & Control Plane

"The biggest surprise was how much support we've gotten from the Control Plane team." — Minga Most teams know the drill: unless you're paying a lot, you don't get real support from GCP or AWS. Minga found the opposite with Control Plane. Whenever an infrastructure issue comes up, the Control Plane team jumps in — digging through logs, tracking down the root cause, and staying in the trenches even when the problem isn't theirs to fix.

Minga cut infra costs 30-40% - and it scales itself | Control Plane

Minga checks in 1.5 million students across the eastern seaboard by 8:30 AM Eastern — then lets that infrastructure wind down an hour later. After migrating to Control Plane, they cut infrastructure costs 30–40% and traded fragile, manual scaling for a platform that scales itself.