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Cloud Infrastructure Transformation for a Fitness platform

The client needed a modern, scalable cloud infrastructure to support its expanding operations and e-commerce platform.

Synergo - full service web & mobile solutions team.

The client is a fitness and nutrition company that offers customized workout and diet plans to help people achieve their health and fitness goals. With a large and growing customer base, the client needed a modern, scalable cloud infrastructure to support its expanding operations and e-commerce platform.

The company turned to Synergo Group for help in building a robust, scalable cloud solution on AWS.

Project Transformation

Challenge and Scope

Solutions

Business impact

Technologies and Tools

The team

1 — Challenge and Scope

The client’s manual infrastructure management caused inconsistent setups and higher error risks.

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Manual Operations

The client’s previous infrastructure was largely managed manually, resulting in inconsistent configurations across environments, increased risk of errors, and a lack of standardized processes.

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Scalability

Their existing infrastructure needed to scale rapidly to accommodate increasing traffic on their e-commerce platform, which is based on Laravel.

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Deployment Complexity

The company required a reliable and automated deployment pipeline to manage its Kubernetes-based applications.

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Management Overhead

The challenge was to establish a collaborative workflow where a QA Engineer created Cypress end-to-end tests and Storybook files, while a Senior Angular Developer on the client side reviewed and supported the process, ensuring accurate component behaviors and thorough testing.

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Time-to-Market

The client needed to reduce deployment times and enable faster delivery of new features.

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Technical Debt

Their previous infrastructure, coupled with manual processes, contributed to increasing technical debt and operational inefficiencies.

2 — Solutions

This approach enabled our client to achieve their goals with confidence and efficiency.

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AWS Landing Zone

We deployed an AWS Landing Zone, following best practices to provide a secure, multi-account architecture. This gave the client clear separation between environments (development, staging, production) while maintaining strong governance and security controls.

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EKS Cluster for E-commerce Application

We set up an Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) cluster to host the client’s e-commerce application, which is built on Laravel. This ensured the application was highly scalable and resilient to traffic spikes.

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CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions

We built a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions for continuous integration and deployment, streamlining the development and release process, and ensuring each release followed standardized, automated procedures.

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Datadog Synthetic Monitoring

We implemented Datadog Synthetic Monitoring to simulate user interactions and ensure the reliability of the client’s e-commerce application. This provided proactive detection of issues before they impacted end users.

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ArgoCD and GitHub Actions for Kubernetes Deployment

To address the inconsistencies caused by manual operations, we automated Kubernetes deployments using ArgoCD integrated with GitHub Actions. This enabled the client to deploy new features rapidly and reliably while ensuring consistency across environments.

3 — Business Impact

Empowering the client to meet market demands, stay competitive, and deliver greater value to their customers.

Developer Experience

Developers can now spin up feature environments on demand, allowing for parallel development and testing efforts.

Faster Time-to-Market

With automated deployments and CI/CD pipelines in place, the client can release new features and updates more quickly, reducing time-to-market.

Lowering Technical Debt

The move from manual processes to a fully automated, modern cloud infrastructure reduced technical debt, making the system easier to maintain and extend.

Decreased Management Overhead

The AWS Landing Zone, combined with automated infrastructure and deployments, significantly reduced the operational burden on the client’s engineering teams, allowing them to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure management.

Improved Visibility and Performance

With Datadog monitoring and APM, the client gained complete visibility into their infrastructure and application performance, enabling faster detection of issues and optimization of system performance.

Proactive Issue Detection

Through Datadog Synthetic Monitoring, the client was able to detect and address application issues before they impacted users, ensuring a more reliable and consistent user experience.

4 — Technologies and Tools

These technologies are chosen to align with client goals, ensuring innovative and impactful results.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) for cloud platform for hosting and scaling

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AWS Landing Zone for a secure, multi-account AWS environment

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EKS for a scalable and resilient platform for containerized applications.

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GitHub Actions for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)

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ArgoCD for automating Kubernetes deployments

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Terraform for enabling automated and consistent provisioning of AWS resources.

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Datadog Synthetic Monitoring to simulate user interactions and monitor application performance,

5 — The Team

By combining technical proficiency, creativity, and effective communication, our teams consistently transform challenges into opportunities, driving success across industries.

Cloud Architect

Designed and implemented the cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability.

DevOps Engineers

Set up CI/CD pipelines, managed Kubernetes deployments, and automated infrastructure provisioning.

Backend Developers

Migrated and optimized applications for the cloud environment, ensuring smooth operations.

Monitoring Specialist

Configured and managed tools like Datadog to ensure continuous performance tracking and issue resolution.

"It is with great pleasure that I am writing this letter of reference for Synergo Group. We have been working with them since 2021 and have nothing but high praise for both their management, and their roster of highly qualified individuals.
What started as a small engagement for one of our clients has now grown into a large portion of our staffing for multiple clients in multiple disciplines. Cristi and his team have helped us grow our business exponentially and have always been 100% transparent with us.
They have supplied the perfect resources for the many different requests we have made and are constantly making sure that everything is going according to our plan on each project. I highly recommend using their services and would be happy to speak to anyone that is contemplating engaging with them."

Steve M. - CTO

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