Client:
BlackBuck
Introduction:
BlackBuck, founded in 2015, is a leading Indian trucking platform that revolutionized the industry by digitizing traditionally offline operations. Through its innovative technology, the company connects shippers with truckers, streamlining processes like load booking, payments, insurance, and financial services. By providing a reliable and efficient platform, BlackBuck aims to empower both shippers and truckers, ensuring timely and cost-effective transportation solutions.
Business Need:
BlackBuck seeks to migrate its QA environment from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to AWS Mumbai to consolidate its infrastructure and streamline its operations. This migration involves transferring numerous microservices, databases, and other services currently hosted on GCP virtual machines to AWS. By standardizing on AWS, BlackBuck aims to improve scalability, reliability, and performance while aligning its QA environment with its existing production infrastructure.
Implementation:
- Rapyder’s engineers moved several databases and messaging services (Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, Maxwell, SonarQube, and MongoDB) from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Amazon Web Services (AWS). They used a tool called MGN, AWS Application Migration Service, to make the transition easier.
- Rapyder’s engineering team successfully migrated heavy data of MySQL and PostgreSQL database from Google Cloud SQL to Amazon Web Services RDS, ensuring secure and efficient transfer of critical business information.
- Jenkins, a software tool, was set up on an AWS server (EC2) to help automatically deploy code changes to a Kubernetes cluster (EKS). The deployment process was broken down into different steps (stages) to make it easier to manage. This helped the team quickly and easily deploy the latest updates to their application.
Industry:
- Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
Offering:
- Migration
AWS Services:
- EC2, RDS, MGN, EKS, IAM, Jenkins
Reaping Rewards:
- BlackBuck’s IT team experienced a significant reduction in administrative overhead, allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks and optimize their AWS environment.
- BlackBuck’s AWS migration ensured accurate QA testing, leading to more reliable results and smoother deployments.
- They achieved a 35% cost reduction compared to their previous GCP setup while maintaining high resource utilization and efficiency, using AWS’s cost optimization tools.
- AWS’s robust security features and compliance certifications provided BlackBuck with peace of mind, ensuring that their QA environment met industry standards and protected their data.
- By identifying and resolving issues more quickly, BlackBuck was able to shorten their development cycles and bring new features and updates to market faster.
- Rapyder ensured a smooth disaster recovery planning and execution, with AWS environment which ensured their business could quickly recover from any disruptions.
- A single cloud platform fostered better collaboration between BlackBuck’s development, QA, and operations teams, leading to a more cohesive and efficient workflow.
