When a large employer rolls out the program, the shop takes the rush.
meinMPP sees its biggest peaks when an enterprise customer opens the program to its whole workforce at once. On enum Kubernetes Engine in Frankfurt, the platform scales out for the rush and back in afterwards, fully operated by enum.
The company
meinMPP runs the Employee PC Program (MPP), a state-supported tech benefit for employers. Employees lease private tech of their choice through salary sacrifice, roughly 30% cheaper than buying it outright, including full protection. For employers, the program is free and mostly automated. Employers from startups to enterprise companies offer it to their teams. The product includes a public-facing shop with 2,000+ products, self-managed employee budgets, automated payroll exports, and HR integrations.
Visit websiteThe challenge
- Enterprise rollouts send a whole workforce to the shop at the same time. The platform has to scale for the rush without anyone watching dashboards.
- Operations sat with an agency and external providers. During incidents, meinMPP sometimes waited up to 12 hours for a response.
- Payroll exports and HR integrations have to be right, even at peak load, because mistakes flow straight into payroll.
- Enterprise customers ask for German hosting, clear contracting parties and solid GDPR paperwork.
Why enum
Scales for every rollout
When a large customer goes live, the shop scales out for the rush and back in afterwards. meinMPP scales its product; enum scales the platform and plans capacity ahead of known rollouts.
Full operation instead of an internal team
enum handles CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and 24/7 on-call with an SLA. meinMPP gets the operating model of an internal DevOps team without building one.
One accountable partner
Before, the agency, operations, and external providers were split apart. During incidents, that led to finger-pointing and waiting. With enum, the platform, operations, and 24/7 on-call sit with one partner under one SLA.
Direct access to the engineers who run it
meinMPP talks directly to the engineers operating the platform, not a first-level queue. That is why response time went from hours to minutes.
Frankfurt, German jurisdiction
HR and compliance teams ask about data location, contracting party, and legal jurisdiction. enum gives meinMPP Frankfurt, a German GmbH, and GDPR-native infrastructure. That makes enterprise sales conversations easier.
Built for payroll-critical workloads
Payroll exports feed real salary runs. Errors are expensive. enum monitors the platform and catches issues before they reach payroll.
Operations: DevOps as a Service
enum runs the whole platform, like an internal DevOps team:
- Development environment and CI/CD pipelines
- Platform operations on enum Kubernetes Engine
- Observability and monitoring
- Alerting and 24/7 on-call with SLA
- Incident response under 15 minutes
- Auto-scaling for traffic peaks during enterprise rollouts
- Updates, patching, and security
- Backups
Architecture
What runs on enum and how the parts work together.
Results
- Traffic peaks during enterprise rollouts are absorbed automatically, and the platform scales back in afterwards.
- Incident response reduced from up to 12 hours to under 15 minutes.
- 24/7 on-call with SLA, operated by enum.
- Employees order tech through the public-facing shop, whether they work at startups or enterprise companies.
- HR teams get automated payroll exports instead of manual follow-up.
- All data stays in Frankfurt, under German jurisdiction and without US dependencies.
- meinMPP runs the platform without an internal DevOps team.
"enum gave us a platform team without us having to hire one. We focus on our product, not Kubernetes."
Sovereignty as an enabler
Enterprise customers want verifiable German hosting. enum provides Frankfurt, German jurisdiction, and GDPR-native infrastructure. For meinMPP, that is not a checkbox. It is a sales argument with HR and compliance teams.
What's next
meinMPP is adding new product categories and HR integrations. enum remains the technical base.
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