Case Study
Cloud native application development
For a leading re-mortgage, real estate market place and management platform in the US
PROBLEM
Client faced the following business challenges:
- The existing application was very slow and did not provide the end users a great home buying experience
- The client wanted to hyper scale their business to 3000X. The existing monolith application was not built for scale and support this critical and timely business need
- The application was not responsive and the application was not available on different footprint devices
- The application incurred high operational cost and was not agile
SOLUTION
- UST implemented the Cloud Native Serverless foundation on AWS, Java with API strategy that offers agility, scalability, availability and significant reduction of operational cost
- Improved the overall page response using Caching strategy and optimized their image processing services
- Enhanced the user experience with intuitive and responsive web design
- Migrated the ColdFusion based CMS(MURA) to WordPress, a simple yet best suited CMS for AWS Cloud
- DevOps strategy for faster time to market and quality
- Key Differentiators were:
- Expertise in building cloud native Serverless foundation on AWS with high agility, availability, security and deliver business value
- Speed through composition, Design First Approach
- Fit for purpose architecture, strategy and tools that aligns with the business goals
IMPACT
- Forecasted 100X users and traffic with virtually no limit for scale, >99.9% availability and increased revenue opportunities
- Business stays in top line with Higher SEO score, <2 second page speed, near real time image processing and responsive design
- Reduction of TCO by 40% and can be higher as the scale and usage goes up
- Speed to Market: Every key business feature can be independently developed, tested and released with agility and CI/CD pipeline