Seeking a partner to drive forward its growth, Datanuum opted to work with Citrus Consulting based on the company’s prior experience in similar scenarios for customers across the UAE and KSA. Citrus prides itself on comprising a team of technologists and problem solvers whose core competencies are around emerging technologies. As Advanced Consulting Partner for Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company boasts end-to-end solutions on the AWS Cloud – from strategy and design to migration and operations.
“One of the customer’s core focus areas when working with us was to ensure that the application is decoupled, thereby enabling agile feature deployments and minimizing manual intervention, as well as enhancing scalability for both application and infrastructure,” said Dan Sithambaram, Director, MEA Business and Operations, Citrus Consulting.
Once Datanuum approved the strategy recommended by Citrus for scalability and availability, Citrus pushed ahead with enabling auto scaling for all individual application components and features. “We positioned Serverless Stack, including AWS Fargate with AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodeCommit, as the go-to technology on the infrastructure side,” said Sithambaram. “AWS offers technologies for running code, managing data, and integrating applications – all without managing servers. Serverless technologies feature automatic scaling, built-in high availability, and a pay-for-use billing model to increase agility and optimize costs. These technologies also eliminate infrastructure management tasks like capacity provisioning and patching, so the customer can focus on building capabilities that serve their customers.”
The migration from the traditional monolithic application design to a microservices based architecture –
incorporating key features of autoscaling, minimized threat exposure and serverless technologies took approximately 28 days. Since the implementation, Datanuum has enjoyed a number of benefits as a result of the project.
“Through the deployment of numerous native AWS CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) tools, the customer benefitted from a faster time to detect and correct production escapes, leading to a faster rate of release, in addition to following a simplified process for making small code changes, leading to fewer unintended consequences,” said Sithambaram
As a result of further innovative solutions – such as the implementation of Amazon CloudWatch – enabling insights on infrastructure through custom dashboards, and continuous deployment solutions ensuring that software delivery is efficient, resilient, rapid and secure, Datanuum has seen significant business value in the partnership. “Some of the most notable new features include the Serverless Architecture, deployed leveraging AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda amongst others, to implement automated scalability, plus the centralization of Datanuum’s code repository through AWS CodeCommit and GitHub,” added Sithambaram.
Following the deployment, Citrus Consulting continues to serve the customer through managing its infrastructure on AWS. In addition, Citrus is supporting the customer’s application team with code and feature deployments within the managed services model, offering round-the-clock availability.
“Citrus team played a key role in helping us move to a scalable and more stable AWS infrastructure. They worked closely with our team to help us identify the code changes we needed to do and patiently worked with us to ensure a smooth transition from our old infrastructure to the new AWS one. We continue to rely on the Citrus team to ensure we continue to adopt the latest AWS technologies and to maintain our growing infrastructure. Our partnership with Citrus has enabled to focus on what technology to build next and to keep our clients happy, without having to worry about the readiness of our infrastructure,” said Sadek, Datanuum’s CTO.
