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Overview

Our client, a renowned FinTech player, was facing constant challenges with their existing technical infrastructure, further introducing inefficiency in both Cost & Performance aspects. They came to us for a viable and prolonged solution to address their concerns and solve each aspect of their problem down to reducing the manual labour, wastage of resources & compliance with industry regulation & norms

Challenges

Amongst multiple challenges faced the most prominent & concerning ones were primarily the core components for fundamental functioning & operations including inefficiency of proper automated infrastructure, incompliance with standard for disaster recovery & increase in operational cost & downtime of services

• In-efficient Performance caused by application downtime

• Manual intervention leading to faults & delays for maintenance & recovery

• Increased operational costs due to improper allocation & overcommitted resources & redundant operations

• Incompliance with norms for proper and efficient Disaster recovery in case of needs

Strategy

To address the operational challenges, we adopted Kubernetes for effective application resource management:

• Downtime resolution : Implemented Blue-Green deployments for seamless rolling updates, used Kubernetes pod health checks and automated restart mechanisms to minimize service downtime earlier carried out by manual repetitive procedures of cleaning, fixation and re-deployment of newer version.

• Resource optimization : Enabled Autoscaling to dynamically allocate resources based on demand and availability that were earlier static with no particular tracking & monitoring mechanism for efficiency.

• Disaster recovery : Set up cross-zone replication of the entire application infrastructure alongside automated failover and recovery processes, ensuring recovery initiation within 5 minutes of a detected issue , significantly reducing downtime by avoiding the steps to manually setup the entire infrastructure, networking & connections in another zone.

Result

We rigorously tested each applied concept to ensure system resilience, performance, and compliance:

• System reliability :Conducted stress testing to evaluate component interaction under load, simulated dynamic traffic to validate auto-scaling capabilities, performed rolling updates and injected intentional faults to assess restart and recovery mechanisms.

• Performance & cost optimization : Continuously monitored and refined custom-coded policies and methods, achieved improved time and cost efficiency compared to legacy systems eliminating delay & errors by human intervention.

• Disaster recovery & compliance : Implemented industry-standard recovery mechanisms to ensure reduced downtime to 5 minutes, faster recovery of backup system with zero manual intervention with full efficiency and robustness as the original.

Product Growth & Impact

The implemented systems delivered significant improvements in scalability, automation, and operational efficiency:

• Cost efficiency : Reduced operational costs by nearly 50% through dynamic, scalable resource allocation.

• Automation & reliability Minimized manual intervention by automating critical infrastructure operations.

• Disaster recovery enhancement : Reduced non-compliant downtime from 3–4 hours to under 8 minutes & achieved fully automatic, end-to-end disaster recovery aligned with industry standards specially for time & reliability constraints.

Conclusion

At Asmadiya, delivering better than commitments is what we believed and the solution delivered to the clients aligned with exactly what was needed, ensuring resolution of each problem statement. At last we delivered an automated, highly-scalable, dynamic, standardised, compliant and secure infrastructure for client’s application, reducing the time and human dependencies and cherry on top was the cost efficiency.