--- title: How Magic Circle Scaled Up To 2M Games With Cloudflare... description: Magic Circle, a small multiplayer game studio, scaled to 2 million game sessions while keeping infrastructure costs under $500/month by combining Cloudflare... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-magic-circle-scaled-up-to-2m-games-with-cloudflare-and-neon-cjnge0yra twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Magic Circle Scaled Up To 2M Games With Cloudflare and Neon | daily.dev og:description: Magic Circle, a small multiplayer game studio, scaled to 2 million game sessions while keeping infrastructure costs under $500/month by combining Cloudflare... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-magic-circle-scaled-up-to-2m-games-with-cloudflare-and-neon-cjnge0yra og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CJngE0YrA.png og:image:alt: How Magic Circle Scaled Up To 2M Games With Cloudflare and Neon og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Magic Circle Scaled Up To 2M Games With Cloudflare and Neon **[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Magic Circle, a small multiplayer game studio, scaled to 2 million game sessions while keeping infrastructure costs under $500/month by combining Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare Durable Objects, and Neon serverless Postgres. Their key workflow innovation is using Neon database branches per pull request, enabling multiple daily deployments, isolated developer environments, end-to-end testing against real data, and fast rollbacks — bringing web-style rapid iteration to multiplayer game development. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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