Situation
Sketch facilitated product improvements for an IT Security Firm that outgrew its low-code solution. By starting from scratch, the developers built an MVP quickly with the features and capabilities users actually needed and wanted. Sketch also selected a framework that enabled the firm to improve and maintain the app down the line, without hiring a large internal software team.
Our client didn’t have full-time software developers on staff, but rather, technically-minded individuals very capable of leveraging a no-code/low-code solution. They used this solution to build their application in a cost-effective manner and begin scaling their business. Unfortunately, as they scaled, they realized their needs surpassed the inherent limitations of a no-code/low-code solution.
Paying down technical debt
Page load times were becoming an issue for their clients, with even simple things such as logins taking five to ten seconds to process. Our client needed a modern application that followed best practice coding principles. They also needed software that ran on a platform they could better control and felt comfortable being responsible for.
Update software without downtime
Here's the rub: During this period of transition from a no-code/low-code solution to custom software, the client could not experience downtime or any other interruptions to the experience users had come to expect
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Of course, it also had to be inexpensive, scalable, and performant. For an AWS Partner, this isn't a daunting task.
Custom AWS development
AWS Lambda is the perfect choice to meet these needs. As a serverless solution, Lambda offers cost-effective pricing where you only pay per execution request, plus an operations-free model where no server patching, updates, nor maintenance are required. It also boasts theoretically infinite scaling to accommodate a growing user base.
We also leveraged AWS Cognito and RDS, managed services that offer redundancy, fail-over, and security to further enhance the application’s production capabilities. All of this was implemented using Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and tools to expand the platform to multiple environments at the push of a button.
Lastly, by taking advantage of AWS’ CodeBuild and CodePipeline CI/CD solutions, we were able to achieve faster deployment cycles while developing the software, getting optimal client feedback along the way, and building the exact solution they needed.
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