Overview
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 us for help in building a robust, scalable cloud solution on AWS.
The challenge
The client faced several challenges with their existing infrastructure, which was manually managed, leading to inconsistent configurations and increased risk of errors.
01
Manual Operations Leading to Inconsistencies
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.
02
Scalability
Their existing infrastructure needed to scale rapidly to accommodate increasing traffic on their e-commerce platform, which is based on Laravel.
03
Deployment Complexity
The company required a reliable and automated deployment pipeline to manage its Kubernetes-based applications.
04
Management Overhead
Managing multiple environments for development, staging, and production created a significant operational burden.
05
Time-to-Market
The client needed to reduce deployment times and enable faster delivery of new features.
06
Technical Debt
Their previous infrastructure, coupled with manual processes, contributed to increasing technical debt and operational inefficiencies.
The solutions
AWS Landing Zone
EKS Cluster for E-commerce Application
CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions
Datadog Synthetic Monitoring
ArgoCD and GitHub Actions for Kubernetes Deployment
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform
The Result
Our implementation delivered substantial benefits to the client, including:
- Streamlined 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.
Client’s Feedback
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
