SOLID.engineer

The Client

Host Analytics is a leading financial planning and analysis (FP&A) cloud platform, helping businesses in agile planning and decision-making. More than 800 customers including, Bose, Boston Red Sox, Del Monte, rely on Host Analytics for financial planning and budgeting, dynamic operational planning, financial consolidations, reporting, and visual analytics.

The Challenges

Host Analytics was requested by their partners to extend the duration and develop the capacity of data back-up. They needed a solution that allowed increasing data retention to help their partners reduce discovery costs and recovery effort time.

The Solution

SOLID engineer worked out on a local storage to create a 7- / 30- / 60- day rotational method.

- Set up a Direct Connect line from client’s data center to AWS data center for optimal connection and security.

- Perform AWS cross-region replication to enable automatic and asynchronous copying of data across buckets in different regions. This ensures data sufficiency for Host Analytics’s partners.

- Build a Disaster Recovery solution to easily restore all data to the centre within an hour by backing up data from local to AWS Cloud.

The Benefits

With data retention period extended to 60 days, Host Analytics fulfills their partners’ demands while reducing costs by 98% without any change in current infrastructure.

The Client

GameSmart is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. They deliver games, content and online services for Internet-connected computers, mobile phones and tablets. The US-based company is the provider of popular game titles; Yum Yum Jelly Match, Berry Blast, Froggy, Deadshot Dynamite, Subway Clash, and Solar Drive. Currently GameSmart users enjoy over 250,000 games plays per day and the number is growing steadily.

The Challenges

GameSmart wished to safeguard their website performance and improve visitors experience. With more than 50 games in a wide variety of ranges stored on website, the website was expected to be fully operational at all time and kept stable to serve visitors in different locations. Besides, they wanted to build a disaster recovery plan to keep their business-critical IT systems up and running as well as get prepared for worst-case scenario.

The Solution

SOLID engineer worked with the client to propose a solution which helped the website well serve visitors in different regions while running smoothly and stably.

- Leverage CloudFormation to backup data and launch a new environment. AMI and backup ID were integrated in CloudFormation to enable quick set up in another AWS region and backup process in case of any error.

- Copy data across Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) as a game content storage to ensure data safety for visitors from multi regions.

- Ran an automated script on Amazon EC2 – a server to duplicate applications to another AWS region and back up RDS instances.

- Build a Golden Image for all EC2 instances to stabilize applications launching.

The Benefits

SOLID.engineer team is now able to make the website available for 99.99% uptime. We can prevent downtime while deploying new version. Further more, we can confirm game data on S3 is redundancy and performance of the website is good.

BUSINESS NEED 

- Sanaky wants to improve its website & manage its own CMS. The previous version was built in 2012 with Wordpress. It doesn’t respond well with phone users.

- Since the website’s main role is to show off Sanaky’s products, hence loading time needs to be fast.

PROJECT SCOPE 

- The project have 4 people handling different role

- A Designer: Design figma for UI & Balsamiq mockup for Wireframe for better User Experience

- A Business Analyst: Gather requirements from customer and transfer to development team

- A Front-End developer: Redo the website based on UI’s provided 

- A CMS developer: Deploy CMS & settings to AWS

BENEFIT & VALUE

- Faster and smoother user experience, which improve business performance;

- Better SEO.

The Client

FamDeli is a social food-tech startup that connects homecooked-meals made by stay-at-home women to office workers. The startup aims to deliver a convenient meal solution while helping women generate extra income. Within four years, FamDeli has provided more than 160,000 meals to 200 companies in Vietnam.

The Challenges

The food delivery service, including take orders and confirm orders, was processed manually on Facebook, phone calls and Excel spreadsheets. This resulted in inefficiency throughout the whole operation in how meals were ordered and delivered to customers. Facing this challenge, FamDeli sought for a digital solution which could streamline the process.

The Solution

SOLID engineer helped FamDeli create a web platform that allows individuals to place orders and suppliers (stay-at-home women) to receive orders simultaneously. Customers select their desired meal from the menu and make payment on website.

- Build high-quality user-interfaces with React – an open-source JavaScript library, allowing to sort out different components into simple content pillars for users to consume.

- Enable a fault-tolerant system that ensures a resilient, stable and safe website operation.

- Set up a secure network layer to prevent data leak and hacking by using AWS Shield.

The Benefits

The solution provides FamDeli’s suppliers and customers with easy access to food ordering platform in a more rapid and effective way. The web platform is equipped with various features that help deliver a seamless ordering experience for customers: ordering management system, alert tool, and other integrated API services. The platform also supports businesses in preparing lunchboxes for employees, which helps them to reduce turnover rates to 18% and increase productivity to 131%.