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Tax accounting system

1500 1200 admin

Success Story

Tax accounting system

CTO received scalable and manageable infrastructure by introducing AWS. His team gained back more time for product development with Ansible infrastructure as a code implementation and automated test environments provisioning

Problem

A lot of manual work to deploy.
Luck of operations experience.
Manual infrastructure setup caused high maintenance costs and

client:

Tax accounting system

date:

July 2017-Now

solution

AWS cloud adoption
Infrastructure as a code automation Ansible
Automated tests with test environment provisioning in AWS
Logs collection and monitoring Cloudwatch + Appsignal + Zabbix + Slack integration

impact

Implementing infrastructure as a code and continuous deployment helped startup to:

Improved project stability and time to market

Let team focus on development instead of painful operations tasks

Cloud adoption led to project scalability

E-commerce platform

1500 1200 admin

Success Story

E-commerce platform

Key development team gained back control over product quality by decreased risk of broken deploys and freed up their hands for product improvements by deployment automation and infrastructure monitoring introduction

Problem

Lack of deployment pipeline processes, “big Bang” releases on production with long downtimes

client:

E-commerce platform

date:

July 2017

solution

Jenkins as CI\CD tool integration
Deployment process implementation
Zabbix infrastructure monitoring

impact

Implementing infrastructure as a code and continuous deployment helped startup to:

Quality improve

Decreased risk of broken deploys and features

Automated testing support for QA team

Decreased requirements in additional QA engineers for same job amount A/B testing assumptions on customers

Reduced overhead of manual deployment

More time for coding for key developers (Several days for deployment prepare)

Flight Booking Service

1200 482 admin

Success Story

Flight Booking Service

Product team enjoyed faster time to market by more frequent deploys thanks to Jenkins integration. CTO gained better scaled as well as cost-efficient infrastructure with infrastructure as a code automation and hence increased his productivity by c.30%

Problem

Lot’s of manual work to deploy, distracted development team. Manual infrastructure setup caused high maintenance costs and

client:

International Flights Booking Service

date:

2016

solution

Infrastructure as a code automation: Chef
Continuous delivery: Jenkins
Logs collection and monitoring: ELK stack + Zabbix

impact

Implementing infrastructure as a code and continuous deployment helped startup to:

Infrastructure scaling become easier

Validate assumptions - fast time to market provided the ability to test new features and receive customers feedback

CTO increased his productivity by 30%

Social Network Startup

1500 1200 admin

Success Story

Social Network Startup

Development team received end to end solution for automated development and production environments launch and quick deploy with integrated Jenkins and containerised AWS infrastructure

Problem

Lack of operations experience caused high amount of time spent on infrastructure creation

client:

Social platform for neighbours communication

date:

Feb 2017

solution

Jenkins as CI\CD tool integration
Deployment process implementation
Docker containers implementation

impact

Developers received the complete solution for development
environments creation and code deployments. Containerised infrastructure and AWS cloud let company easily create production environment and go live

Infrastructure scaling become easier

Validate assumptions - fast time to market provided the ability to test new features and receive customers feedback

CTO increased his productivity by 30%

Q&A web platform for education

1200 482 admin

Success Story

Q&A web platform for education

CTO increased his productivity by c.25%, Lead Architect – by c.40%, direct salary costs to support infrastructure were squeezed  by 55% with the help of Continuous Delivery, infrastructure as a code and automated environments provisioning implementation with Docker and Selenium on AWS

Problem

A lot of manual work to deploy, distracted development team. Manual infrastructure setup caused high maintenance costs and

client:

Q&A web platform for education

date:

June 2015 – Now

solution

Infrastructure as a code automation: Chef
Continuous delivery: Jenkins
Automated test with test environment provisioning in AWS: Docker and Selenium
Logs collection and monitoring: ELK stack + Zabbix + Slack integration

impact

Implementing infrastructure as a code and continuous deployment helped startup to:

Deliver features faster to end user

Rapidly create testing environments for developers

Allowed to scale application easy reduced infrastructure maintenance costs

Team leads can deploy continuously on production

CTO increased his productivity by 25% and Lead Architect by 40%

Decreased by 55% direct salary costs to support the infrastructure