About the Client:
With a rich history spanning over 29 years, Move Inc. is a leader in the real estate listing industry, operating a diverse portfolio of brands, including realtor.com, moving.com, doorsteps.com, avail.com, and upnest.com, dedicated to assisting millions of users in their quest to discover property listings, secure relocation support, streamline rental management, and enhance consumer and customer engagement. As the real estate landscape continues to evolve, with an ever-growing number of users relying on online platforms, Move Inc. is committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences to buyers and sellers alike.
Challenge:
The client’s objectives encompass a comprehensive set of key goals, including:
- Control: Establishing robust control mechanisms to manage and monitor their environment effectively.
- Standardization: Implementing standardized processes and practices to ensure consistency and efficiency across their operations.
- Security & Governance: Strengthening security measures and governance protocols to safeguard data and maintain compliance.
- Maintenance: Streamlining maintenance procedures for enhanced system stability and reduced downtime.
- Scalability: Preparing the environment to seamlessly adapt to growing demands and changing requirements.
- DevOps: Embracing DevOps principles to foster collaboration, automation, and continuous delivery.
- Cost Efficiency: Achieving cost optimization by identifying and implementing strategies to minimize expenses.
In addition to these overarching goals, the client also seeks to enhance their agility, promoting the ability to respond swiftly to changing circumstances. They aim for self-service capabilities, empowering users to access and manage resources independently. Furthermore, the client is eager to expedite their time-to-market, accelerating the delivery of products and services to remain competitive in their industry.
Solution:
Following an in-depth analysis, Brillio determined that addressing the client’s comprehensive requirements would be best accomplished through next-gen MSP solutions. Next-gen AWS MSPs prioritize meeting the client’s immediate business objectives and even go beyond them, strategically targeting key areas such as migration, operations, and optimization to ensure customer success.
- Brillio’s implementation leveraged a range of AWS technologies, including AWS CloudFormation Templates, AWS S3, AWS EMR, AWS CloudFront, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Elasticsearch, AWS Athena, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, and Managed Apache Airflow, among others.
- Brillio initiated the process by providing automated deployment scripts for setup, configuration, deployment, and support, along with a self-service portal for FAR standardized cloud infrastructure setup.
- Furthermore, we’ve seamlessly integrated all components with a robust DevOps framework, enabling Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) for efficient and agile development processes. The management of AWS resources utilized by the client was efficiently streamlined through AWS CloudFormation templates, ensuring scalability and resource optimization.
- Brillio has also implemented a notifications system via Kinesis streams, ensuring immediate updates and synchronization of databases across multiple teams, resulting in improved collaboration and data consistency.
Business Benefits:
Following Brillio’s implementation, powered by Next-Gen AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) solutions, the client achieved remarkable enhancements in several critical areas. These achievements included a substantial reduction in provisioning time, along with significant strides in governance and monitoring.
The introduction of new cloud infrastructure features ushered in a transformative era, marked by expedited deployment processes and the ability to effect instantaneous changes in databases. These achievements can be summarized as follows:
- Streamlined Scaling: Easier to auto-scale based on demand, reducing provisioning time by 70%.
- Enhanced Governance and Monitoring: Simplified and robust governance and monitoring capabilities, leading to a 40% faster resolution of server-related issues and contributing to more efficient operations.
- Seamless DevOps Integration: By seamlessly integrating with DevOps practices, the implementation enabled auto-deployment, slashing deployment times by an impressive 45%.
- Real-time Database Updates: The system facilitated immediate updates from the databases of various systems, greatly enhancing governance processes and ensuring the latest changes were promptly reflected.
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