India | E-Commerce
Nearbuy is India’s first hyper-local online platform that enables customers and local merchants to engage with each other through various offers.
Highlights
Reduced overall infrastructure spending from $100K to $40K
Integrated Docker and Amazon Elastic Container Service for all micro-services
Implemented standardized & automated way of launching application stack
TO THE NEW is responsible to automate repetitive tasks, reduce operational & maintenance costs, and provide economical, flexible, and effective solutions for various project and product demands.
Challenges
To maintain the infrastructure for multiple applications with a high degree of complexity
Monitoring was independent and segregated with almost no notifications for multiple microservices
Technical Excellence
Introduced horizontal autoscaling, multiAZ approach, chef configuration management, and private DNS concept
Implemented single-window monitoring of server resources, application performance, and service availability for escalated notifications
Implemented standardized and automated way of launching, configuring, backing up, and decommissioning the application stack
Used a recommendation engine so that every user has their own personalized deals & offers
Value Delivered
TO THE NEW automated the end-to-end delivery pipeline of Nearbuy and bridged the gap between the Development and Operations teams.
The application deployment time was reduced to 5 minutes from 20 minutes
Implemented centralized monitoring instead of segregated monitoring for quicker identification of issues
Deployed a dedicated DevOps team for maintenance of complex applications