About Ketto
Ketto is Asia’s one of the largest crowdfunding platform that
helps to raise funds for a wide variety of individual,
corporate’s or NGO’s. It provides an online platform to help
people who do not have means to pay for
life threatening diseases , innovative ideas , social causes
etc. The idea of platform was brain stormed at a TED
conference, which grew on to become a revolution.
The Challenge
Since its founding in 2012, It has quickly become a very
popular crowdfunding platform. To respond to it’s
ever-increasing customer base, the company knew it had to
invest in the underlying technology so that it will be
scalable. “Security, Availability, Performance Scalability”
are major challenges of any business’s in today’s world. To
solve these challenges Flentas proposed a Solution where in
these quality attributes are taken care of and also the
infrastructure is more easier to manage and maintain.
These were the high level challenges faced by Crowd Funding
Platform:
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Performance and Scalability were a major bottleneck in their
quest of reaching their ultimate goal of becoming the
leaders in global crowdfunding platform.
- Latency issues coupled with frequent server issues.
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No provision of backup and retention policy for the servers.
- Provisioning of a DR setup was missing.
- Least privilege access was not implemented.
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No Logging & Monitoring of KPI’s for Production Server’s and
Services
The Solution
Flentas proposed to help optimize and monitor their
serverless infrastructure and also setup release management to
cut release times.
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Continuous monitoring of CPU Utilization, Memory and Disk
Space Utilzation of all their AWS services set across
multiple regions using AWS CloudWatch and alerting the team
members by sending SNS notifications.
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Established domain name health checks using Route53 and API
health checks.
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Removed unused and unwanted services that were incurring
cost per month.
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Security hardening by moving instances to private network so
that they are safe and secure.
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IAM password policy, MFA on all IAM Users /Root Account
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Implemented AWS X-Ray to track and monitor API request time
so that it can be optimized.
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AWS Lambda Scripts for Daily, weekly and monthly backups of
all production EC2 instances alongwith rentention.
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Setup a complete DR provisioning solution. Here have used
AWS CloudFormation stack that will create the whole DR
infrastructure.
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Release Management process is leveraged by using native AWS
DevOps Services like AWS CodeCommit for managing code, AWS
CodeBuild for managing for managing builds at scale and AWS
CloudFormation to manage the deployments.
The Benefits
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Less management and maintainence of the serverless
architecture enabled to deploy services faster and thus they
could focus on innovating ideas to help their crowdfunding
platform grow.
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Leveraged the CloudWatch Logs by detecting ERROR logs AWS
Lambda and sending ERROR log by email’s with integration of
SES
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The developer-friendly ecosystem of AWS helped them
transition to the new environment very quickly and
efficiently without much difficulty.
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Migrating to latest generation(AWS Nitro System) instance
types which results in better overall performance of the
server whilst having cost optimization , increased security
on all servers.
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Lift and Shift of their Production servers to a more secure
private network and having a NAT Gateway attached so the
production server’s are secure and also can interact with
the internetwork
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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) monitored in a single
CloudWatch Dashboard with appropriate markers to help in
detecting anomalies and study any kind of irregular spikes
in respective production AWS services.
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24x7 support provided to the organization to help them
resolve their production issues as soon as they are detected
so as to have maximum uptime.
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In the future they also wish to have more AWS managed
services like AWS DynamoDB, AWS CloudSearch, AWS Aurora
Serverless so that the maintenance of servers is completely
disregarded and their primary aim of customer satisfaction
is fulfilled.
