Automation easy, affordable, accessible & compliant ready platform for Quickwork

Quickwork Technology Pvt. Ltd.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Quickwork provides an all-in-one platform with the tools and services you need to build powerful & scalable integrations, serverless APIs, conversational experiences, and a lot more! This supports all types of events used in automated workflows, such as real-time, polling, scheduled, and manual. This unique capability enables building a wide range of workflows across industry verticals.

THE CLIENT’S CHALLENGE

Client wanted to provide the solution which helps to make Automation easy, affordable, accessible and compliant. There aim to trigger the workflow in real-time as soon as the event occurs in the source application systems.This event type is suitable for conversational, IoT, financial, and other use cases that require instantaneous response Since there is a case where millions of such events can occur it needed the infrastructure to support this. Also these events won’t be there in the system for more than 15 to 20 seconds. That means they only need the processing power for < 30 seconds when an event occur. And whenever event occur there should not be more than 1 or 2 seconds of delay accepted to process the event.

PROPOSED ARCHITECTURE

DEPLOYMENT AUTOMATION

The CI (continuous integration) process is managed using Jenkins. An image is pulled from docker repository, customized with application code and then pushed to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). In the CD (continuous delivery) process, the image is pulled from Amazon ECR and applied in the respective Kubernetes namespace.

INSIGHT TO ACTION

The TECHPARTNER team worked with the Quickwork management team and tech leads to understand the project needs. Together we chalked down the plan and finalized the architecture. Our focus was to leverage AWS services and utilize the open source tools to achieve the required output.

To process millions of events which will be there in the system for < than 30 seconds there is no other service better than EKS. We use AWS EKS to support the scale and faster rollout. The architecture consisted of setting up auto-scaling nodegroups using a mix of on demand and spot instances for better performance, scalability and cost optimization.

We Implemented the KEDA which is a kubernetes based event Driven Autoscaler. With KEDA you can drive the scaling of any container in kubernetes based on the number of events needing to be processed.

BENEFITS

Scalable Architecture : With the scalable architecture Quickwork was able to serve the user with improved response time which in turns helped to acquire more users
Performance : As the application and deployment is modular, the whole CI/CD process became easy and efficient
Automation : Automation reduced the manual deployment time by 90% giving free hand to developer to concentrate on Innovation

With Scalable EKS architecture along with KEDA, the client was easily able to launch more than 2 Million of pods on the EKS cluster to execute the customer workflows in a day without any hiccups.

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