How IT Svit Cut Costs by 30% and Optimized Performance for a Leading Event Agency?
IT Svit optimized the infrastructure, increasing request handling capacity by 50%, reducing response time by 40%, and cutting infrastructure costs by 30%. Learn more.
Client: Chillisauce, a leading UK event agency, organizes memorable activities and experiences across Europe.
Challenge: The application slowed significantly during peak times, handling over 20,000 concurrent requests, risking user experience and operational efficiency.
Results: IT Svit optimized the infrastructure, increasing request handling capacity by 50%, reducing response time by 40%, and cutting infrastructure costs by 30%.
What Does Chillisauce Do?
Chillisauce is one of the UK’s largest and fastest-growing event agencies, delivering thousands of memorable activities and experiences across Europe annually. From stag dos and corporate events to unique adventures like shooting zombies or driving fast cars, Chillisauce makes it easy for groups of any size to enjoy exceptional events. Renowned for its creativity and resourcefulness, the company ensures fun and exciting experiences for both customers and employees, organizing over 700 corporate events annually for blue-chip clients such as Deloitte, Facebook, and Barclays. With a central London office housing over 100 talented staff, Chillisauce continues to lead in innovative event planning.
Client’s Challenge
The client faced significant performance issues with their application hosted on AWS Beanstalk. During peak times, the application noticeably slowed when handling over 20,000 concurrent requests. This bottleneck not only hampered user experience but also risked their operational efficiency.
The client needed a robust, scalable solution to ensure their application could efficiently handle high traffic volumes and maintain optimal performance, especially during critical periods. They turned to IT Svit for expertise in optimizing their infrastructure and improving application responsiveness.
Solution and Implementation Process
Upon a comprehensive analysis of the client’s infrastructure and application behavior, IT Svit’s DevOps specialists and a dedicated RM team devised a strategic solution. The team identified that separating part of the application’s functionality responsible for processing and transferring it to a more scalable solution was imperative.
The team proposed leveraging AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) with Fargate. This approach offered several advantages:
- Serverless Architecture:
By utilizing ECS with Fargate, the need to manage and pay for dedicated hosts was eliminated. Instead, the client could pay only for the resources consumed by the containers. This serverless model provided a cost-effective and scalable solution.
- Containerization:
Deploying the application as containers allowed for potentially reduced deployment times. Containers encapsulate the application and its dependencies, ensuring consistent performance across different environments.
- Artifact Promotion:
The deployment pipeline was optimized by collecting artifacts once for a stage and reusing them for production. This approach ensured reproducibility of behavior between staging and production environments and further reduced deployment times since there was no need to rebuild the application for each deployment.
Results
Before IT Svit’s intervention, the application struggled to process 20,000 requests, causing noticeable slowdowns and impacting user experience. After migrating to AWS ECS and Fargate, the application demonstrated a substantial performance improvement.
- Request Handling Capacity:
Increased by 50%, allowing the application to efficiently process up to 30,000 concurrent requests without slowdowns.
- Response Time:
Reduced by 40%, from 1.2 seconds to 0.7 seconds per request, ensuring a smoother user experience.
- Infrastructure Costs:
Reduced by 30%, thanks to Fargate’s pay-as-you-go model, eliminating the need for always-on hosts.
Final Words
Utilizing advanced AWS and containerization technologies, we resolved critical issues and optimized infrastructure. As well, we significantly improved the client’s application performance and cost structure. Looking for a reliable partner in your digital transformation? Our proven expertise can help you achieve your goals. Partner with IT Svit for strategic, effective solutions that drive success.