Greg Solutions

DERMPRO is a hosted e-commerce and marketing platform designed specifically for the aesthetics services industry.

The Challenge:

The client’s eCommerce system was based on a complex cumbersome infrastructure, which required plenty of time and resources to support. They were looking for a reliable DevOps consultant, who would help them set up a much more efficient process. 

Achieved results:

• Decreased infrastructure cost by 85%
• Increased build speed by 60%
• Automated provision and deployment for new client shops: the provisioning of a new shop now takes 2 hours instead of a few days.
• Improved the audit and monitoring process - integrated centralized logging and monitoring of AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and business metrics from the client's applications.
• Provided automation for critical operations, such as database backups.
• Simplified infrastructure management, provisioning, and improved disaster recovery.

Read the full case study here: https://greg-solutions.com/cases/dermpro

Virtido is an entrepreneurial Swiss-based business process outsourcing and IT company. 

The Challenge:

Since the client operates in multiple areas, they needed our help with several projects, which required expertise in different technology stacks and a flexible process in place. Their main task was to build multiple infrastructures from the ground up, infrastructures that would be cost-efficient and support their business objectives.

Achieved results:

• Designed and managed a range of infrastructures based on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Decreased infrastructure maintenance Expenses by 60%.
• Increased development speed by introducing CI/CD pipelines.
• Improved audit with centralized logging and monitoring.
• Simplified user management.

Read the full case study here: https://greg-solutions.com/cases/aws-gcp-infrastructure

Brainbean Apps is a full-cycle software company with core expertise in building full-fledged digital projects in the domains of Internet of Things, Maps & Navigation, and Business Automation.

The Challenge:

The client was struggling with IT infrastructure maintenance and required our DevOps expertise to optimize the existing system that they used to host their iOS and Android apps.

Achieved results:

• Built and supported various infrastructures on AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, and VMware ESXi.
• Unified CI/CD processes for mobile applications.
• Adopted Docker for the applications.
• Decreased time-to-market of the developed features with CI/CD pipelines.
• Built deployment pipelines to deliver mobile applications to GCP Firebase.
• Provided daily DevOps support.

Read full use-case here: https://greg-solutions.com/cases/bbapps

Inventify AG is a Swiss software startup, focusing on the development of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud solutions for businesses across various industries.

The Challenge

The client provides сloud-based software development services to businesses across industries and they needed our DevOps assistance for one of the projects. Our engineers were expected to expand their team’s capabilities by building a platform-independent infrastructure. 

Achieved results:

• Built a cost-effective and secured infrastructure using Google Cloud Platform and Google Kubernetes Engine.
• Introduced the fully automated CI/CD process.
• Integrated role-based access and user management.
• Ensured system stability by building advanced monitoring and centralized application logging.
• Automated daily operations, such as backups.
• Configured VoIP telephony.

Read the full case study here: https://greg-solutions.com/cases/inventify

MyBotGarage is an innovative cloud-based, high-frequency trading platform for digital assets. It is a simple, profitable and efficient way to trade on the world’s fastest-growing crypto market called Binance Futures

The Challenge:

The client was looking for DevOps engineers familiar with the specifics of Blockchain, cryptocurrency and crypto exchanges. Greg Solutions, as a company working with both DevOps and Blockchain, was a natural fit.

Achieved results:

• Designed and implemented an AWS infrastructure with decreased costs by 82%.
• Deployed AWS Elastic Kubernetes clusters.
• Deployed scalable proxy services on top of Elastic Container Service and implemented scaling process.
• Configured CI/CD pipelines.
• Improved audit - added centralized logging, monitoring, and user management.
• Conducted a penetration analysis & improved disaster recovery.

Read the full case study here: https://greg-solutions.com/cases/cost-effective-scalable-aws-infrastructure-for-a-trading-platform/

eSign Genie is a US-based HIPAA-compliant company which provides a platform for digital signatures. 

The Challenge: 

The customer provides a platform for electronic legally binding signatures. To safely store private keys they needed to use a highly secure and HIPAA-compliant Hardware Secure Module (HSM) provided by Amazon (AWS CloudHSM). 

Achieved results:

• Deployed and configured highly secure AWS Cloud HSM clusters.
• Connected Java Web API server and Cloud HSM.
• Implemented a Java Web API server that interacts with CloudHSM to securely sign user documents.
• Document the Cloud HSM setup and configuration.
• Provided maintenance & troubleshooting support.

Read the full case study here: https://greg-solutions.com/cases/esign-genie

The Client is one of the biggest and fastest-growing providers of comprehensive technology and outsourcing solutions for wealth management in Switzerland.

The Challenge:

The client was struggling with a costly infrastructure that provided very low issue response speed. They were looking for a reliable DevOps partner to help them build new, modern infrastructure with a much more efficient way of utilizing resources, unified builds for their .NET, C++, WPF, and iOS applications, and automated testing process.

Expertise delivered:

• VSphere ESXi Infrastructure Design.
• DevOps Consulting.
• Docker Adoption.
• Monitoring System Integration.
• Logging System Integration.
• Centralized User Management / LDAP integration.
• CI/CD design and development.
• Infrastructure as Code Development.

Read the full case study here: https://greg-solutions.com/cases/swiss-finance/

Client: Under NDA

Our client is a mid-size company located in the US and working on hardware development and provisioning.

The Challenge:
The client was striving to ensure the high quality of their product and needed an infrastructure to help support it. Our engineers were asked to apply an infrastructure-as-code tool to codify the client’s AWS infrastructure and implement automatic pipelines to speed up the updates of the environments and improve code quality. In addition to providing DevOps support, Greg Solutions also consulted the client on improving the components in multiple projects.

Goals:

1. Codify the AWS infrastructure with an infrastructure-as-code tool.
2. Develop automatic pipelines for infrastructure updates.
3. Improve code quality and speed up the updates of the environments.
4. Migrate the applications from Amazon ECS to the Amazon EKS clusters.
5. Improve the components in multiple projects and provide DevOps support.

Results:
1. Migrated the client’s infrastructure from Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters.
2. Developed CI/CD processes to enable auto-application of infrastructure modifications using Terraform and CircleCI.
3. Improved code quality and accelerated evolving the infrastructure using code quality checks, nightly builds, and custom notifications.
4. Improved security with Amazon IAM features multi-factor authentication and regular security checks.

Technology stack:

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon ECS, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon Lambda, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon ECR, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudTrail, Amazon ACM, Amazon Route53, MongoDB, CircleCI, Jenkins, Node.js, Golang, Let's Encrypt, Nginx, Packer, GitHub, Cloudflare.

Read more: https://greg-solutions.com/cases/ha-aws-eks

The client is a US-based software startup working on the advancements in genomics diagnostics and therapeutics.

The Challenge:

A US-based Healthcare startup turned to Greg Solutions with a request to help optimize their infrastructure cost to reduce expenses. They also needed our assistance with Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery and other tools that would make their infrastructure more secure and reliable, such as centralized application logging and an advanced alerting system that would notify of the arising issues.

Achieved results:

• Decreased the client’s AWS infrastructure expenses by 80%.
• Developed unified CI/CD processes.
• Improved software stability and audibility - added centralized logging and enabling error alerts.
• Improved the disaster recovery process
• Designed a secure way of running EMR jobs in HIPAA compliant infrastructure.

Read the full case study here: https://greg-solutions.com/cases/healthcare