The project specs, given in the tender document, was open-ended and at a high level. The volume of applicants for these courses was higher than anticipated. Infrastructure would not be available in time for the system to go live.
Solutions,not ideas
We tapped the power of AWS and Postgres to deliver on time. We set up our own hand-optimised Postgres instance on AWS EC2, and added high throughput disk storage with Provisioned IOPS. There were powerful batch processes which ran every day to handle.
Challenges, not problems
The project specs, given in the tender document, was open-ended and at a high level. The volume of applicants for these courses was higher than anticipated. Infrastructure would not be available in time for the system to go live.
Solutions,not ideas
We tapped the power of AWS and Postgres to deliver on time. We set up our own hand-optimised Postgres instance on AWS EC2, and added high throughput disk storage with Provisioned IOPS. There were powerful batch processes which ran every day to handle.
NOW THAT’S VALUE
Thanks to the rock-solid reliability and predictableperformance of Postgres, we coulddeliver twice the transactions in two months as what had been budgeted for three years.
NOW THAT’S VALUE
Thanks to the rock-solid reliability and predictableperformance of Postgres, we coulddeliver twice the transactions in two months as what had been budgeted for three years.
