Deployflow transforms Strike’s cloud environment, eliminates outages, and improves system stability
Strike, a UK property platform, now known as Purplebricks, earns referral fees from services like mortgage, conveyancing, and insurance advice. They sought our help after losing their internal DevOps team. We addressed key issues, including database outages, and implemented proactive solutions, resulting in a more stable and resilient environment.
Challenge
Strike approached Deployflow when they encountered a setback due to the departure of their internal DevOps personnel. The previous DevOps engineering team struggled with scalable and enterprise-level implementations, opting for less sustainable workarounds that increased issues’ frequency. Recognising their urgent need for a skilled team with the right expertise and domain knowledge, our DevOps as a Service on-demand proved to be an ideal solution. We ensured that they could accomplish their tasks swiftly and efficiently, providing them with a high level of experience and effective support. Despite the challenges posed by the project’s technology stack, we swiftly and confidently took it on to meet their specific requirements.
- Strike approached Deployflow after facing a setback due to the departure of their internal DevOps personnel.
- Deployflow's DevOps as a Service on-demand was identified as an ideal solution for Strike's urgent need.
- Deployflow offered high levels of experience and effective support ensuring that tasks were accomplished swiftly and efficiently.
Working with Deployflow has been a game-changer for our organisation. From the outset, their team demonstrated a deep understanding of our needs and challenges. Their expertise in streamlining our development and operations processes has significantly improved our efficiency and productivity.
One of the most impressive aspects of Deployflow is their commitment to delivering customised solutions. They took the time to understand our specific requirements and crafted a strategy that perfectly aligned with our goals. Their help and advice in improving our continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines has drastically increased the reliability of our releases and the platforms.
Solution
We began with a thorough handover from the client's departing DevOps engineer. Our team quickly integrated into daily discussions to address system issues, working closely with the software development team to ensure they had the necessary access to resolve problems promptly. Using our experience and expertise, we tackled challenges effectively, reducing costs and delivering lasting value. By proactively addressing critical concerns like database outages, we created a more stable and resilient environment. Collaborating with Strike's team, we leveraged our domain knowledge to drive long-term business value.
Technologies used: AWS, Elasticsearch, Lambda, Redshift, Redis, EC2, VPC, Networking, DNS, Terraform, Terraform Cloud.
- Ensured optimal access to the system for swift issue resolution.
- Strategically addressed critical concerns, such as database outages
- Implemented a proactive approach to foster a more stable and resilient environment
- Reducing overall costs
Impact
This solution provides the client with a higher level of stability and resiliency of their cloud environment, allowing them to build the right solutions in the long term. Through the elimination of outages and reduction in downtime, we helped the client improve system availability, ensuring a seamless operational experience.
- A higher level of stability and resiliency in their cloud environment.
- Strike can now build the right solutions for the long term.
- Eliminated outages, reduced downtime, and enhanced system availability.
- Increased operational efficiency.
70%
improvement in cloud environment stability
60%
reduction in downtime, with nearly all outages eliminated
55%
improvement in release reliability
25%
reduction in costs
