ExtraMarks Got 10x Faster To The Market With Their New Product Releases - OpsTree Global

ExtraMarks Got 10x Faster To The Market With Their New Product Releases

Extramarks is an education technology company based in India, that sells online and offline schooling and curricula. Extramarks has tied up with 9,000 government and private schools in India. It has over 8 million students and over 6 million online users. The company operates in more than 5 countries globally.

The Problem Statement

The client sought to modernize their operations to meet the demands of an evolving education sector. Their infrastructure lacked scalability and flexibility, making it difficult to support innovative product launches and maintain cost efficiency. Additionally, the absence of robust development and deployment practices hindered their ability to deliver reliable and secure solutions at the pace required.

Challenges

Launching a new product for schools with unpredictable usage patterns.

Operating with a monolithic architecture that caused significant delays and productivity issues.

Struggling with high platform costs and inefficiencies.

Experiencing the absence of CI/CD processes, security checks, and a robust Kubernetes platform.

Solutions

To address the client's challenges and enable a scalable, secure, and efficient platform, the following solutions were implemented:

AWS EKS setup and onboarding of microservices across environments.

Implementation of a Web Application Firewall (WAF) for enhanced security.

Conducted security audits to identify vulnerabilities across the platform.

Set up a dashboard for cost analysis and optimization for all resources.

Established a seamless build and release pipeline for all microservices using BuildPiper.

Reduced build and deployment time with a one-click deployment model via BuildPiper.

Comprehensive setup of monitoring and logging, including a scalable Elasticsearch cluster to handle application search queries.

Outcomes

Successfully deployed over 20 microservices across five environments.

Enabled production readiness for a new product launch in just five days.

Achieved a 50% reduction in cloud costs by utilizing spot instances.

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