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DevOps Story
Once upon a time, there was a bustling company that dreamed of establishing a thriving online presence through an E-commerce website. However, they faced numerous challenges that hindered their progress.
The company struggled with slow time-to-market, as traditional development approaches resulted in lengthy cycles of coding, testing, and deployment. the deployment process takes 10-14 days to release a new feature, with AWS DevOps tools its around three days. Their competitors seemed to launch new features and updates at lightning speed, leaving them trailing behind. They knew they needed a solution that could accelerate their development process and bring them closer to their goals.
That's when they discovered the power of DevOps. Embracing this transformative approach, they found a way to overcome their pain points and achieve their E-commerce ambitions.
By adopting continuous integration and deployment practices, the company automated their development pipeline. They integrated their code changes seamlessly, tested them rigorously, and deployed updates swiftly. The once sluggish time-to-market transformed into a rapid release cycle, allowing them to stay ahead of the competition and seize market opportunities.
In addition, they realized the importance of infrastructure scalability. As their customer base grew, they encountered issues with performance and stability. With DevOps, they leveraged infrastructure as code, enabling them to provision and manage their infrastructure programmatically. They scaled their resources effortlessly, ensuring their E-commerce website could handle increasing traffic and transactions. Real-time monitoring solutions helped them measure critical metrics like response time and resource utilization, empowering them to optimize their website's performance and deliver a seamless user experience.
Security was another concern that weighed heavily on their minds. They understood the significance of safeguarding their customers' data and protecting their reputations. Through DevOps practices, they implemented regular vulnerability scanning, security testing, and compliance checks. They monitored key metrics such as the number of vulnerabilities discovered and the time taken to remediate them. By prioritizing security throughout their development lifecycle, they built a robust and resilient E-commerce platform that customers could trust.
Even with the best measures in place, the deployment process takes 10-14 days to release a new feature, with AWS DevOps tools its around three days.
The company's journey with DevOps was not just about overcoming pain points; it was a story of growth and success. Through their dedication to DevOps principles and the use of key metrics, they transformed their E-commerce website into a well-oiled machine. Their customers enjoyed a seamless shopping experience, their revenue skyrocketed, and their brand became synonymous with reliability and innovation.
In this tale, DevOps served as the catalyst that propelled the company towards their E-commerce dreams. With every sprint, every deployment, and every metric measured, they reaped the rewards of their commitment to continuous improvement. And they lived happily ever after in the world of thriving online commerce, thanks to the power of DevOps.
Ajlan & Bros
AWS Customer challenge
- The customer's website is unstable when there is a sale campaign, with low performance, and high latency, sometimes the website crashes due to a large amount of traffic.
- An on-premise server requires managing and maintaining the infrastructure, including hardware, networking, power, cooling, and backups. This can involve significant time, effort, and expertise.
- Customers need to plan and provision additional hardware and resources to handle increased workloads and waste when resources are not in use.
- The process of updating client website features is also slowed down by the fact that customers release changes manually and there is no complete CI/CD system.
Proposed Solution
Using serverless services: AWS ECS & RDS Aurora.
- We use ECS for Frontend, separate the Database from the Backend, and move the database to RDS Aurora to increase performance and availability.
We can define scaling policies based on metrics such as CPU utilization or request rates, and ECS will automatically adjust the number of frontend containers to handle changes in demand. This ensures that customer applications can scale seamlessly to accommodate increased traffic or workload to help the website to run stably and have a smoother experience.
Additionally, using ECR as an image container provides ECR image scanning that helps identify software vulnerabilities in our container images.
- We also separate the following components from the Backend server to increase performance and availability, for example, OpenSearch for Elasticsearch, and Elasticache for Redis.
- To develop new features, we have also integrated Jenkins into GitHub so that when there is a change to the code, it will trigger an automatic Build & Deploy process.
- Using Jenkins as CI/CD tool helps decrease the risk of errors: Manual processes are more prone to errors than automated ones. Mistakes in configuration, version control, or deployment steps can lead to issues such as broken builds, failed deployments, or incorrect configurations, causing delays and impacting the quality of the released software.
Outcomes
- The AWS solutions mentioned above have helped customers eliminate upfront costs and switch to on-demand costs with an estimated total cost reduction of up to 70% compared to using an on-premise system. Now customers have minimized the cost and complexity of operating the system so that they have time to focus on their business.
- The performance of the customer's website increases 5 times with 99.99% reliability when compared to using on-premise servers.
- Using Jenkins as an automated solution saves a lot of time. It speeds up product delivery to just 3-5 days whenever a new feature is needed, much faster than the legacy system that used a manual and time-consuming release process (10 days).
