Ensuring 2x Faster and 30% Cheaper Deployment on Azure

Overview

Uitware collaborated with a startup that provides insights on airline discounts, good deals, and other travel-related information. The startup’s web scraping system involved a Flask API for triggering the scraping process, Celery workers for actual scraping, Redis for caching scraping results, and Kafka for communication. However, the startup faced challenges in deploying their system in a scalable and reliable manner.

Business Challenge

The startup required a cheap yet powerful containerized deployment solution on Azure, utilizing managed services where applicable to reduce operational overhead. The challenge was to set up a CI/CD solution, container orchestration solution, storage and database solution with simple yet effective ETL (Extract, Transform, Load). Additionally, the startup needed to minimize maintenance costs and administrative overhead.

Value Delivered

By improving the systems’ speed and scalability, we allowed the company to provide more timely insights into airline discount trends, making it easier for them to make informed decisions and stay ahead of their competitors. This resulted in improved customer satisfaction, increased competitiveness, and ultimately, more revenue for the business.

30% reduction in maintenance costs

We reduced their maintenance costs through setting up cluster autoscaling.

2x faster deployments

Due to a proper CI/CD setup, we increased client's deployment frequency.

Processing time from 5 hours to 30 minutes

Achieved faster time-to-market with timely data delivery.

Improved scalability

Increased ability to scale the system quickly and efficiently to meet growing workloads.