Inside look into our technology team and platform
Helder Klemp and Allan Denot manage the Wealthi Engineering team (DNX), working hard to ensure our platform is meeting client expectations while maintaining flexibility to meet new challenges and opportunities.
The DNX team recently completed our entire migration into the AWS ecosystem, providing the framework for future AI, machine learning and API development. In this note, both Klemp and Denot provide a step-by-step process into the migration process.
Building the platform for future growth
Our platform was previously hosted on Heroku platform limiting our ability to create a modern CI/CD pipeline and accelerate our go-to-marketing time. We weren’t able to use the full power of the Cloud facing several challenges when developing and deploying new features and needed a faster production pathway.
Our challenges were summarised as:
- Difficulties maintaining a scalable infrastructure for API architecture
- The need for a better way to deploy APIs
- Our large big-data database was already hosted on AWS, so every query was handled over the Internet, creating performance problems and security concerns
Enhanced capacity and enterprise capability
DNX delivered an easy to use Containers platform, so we’re now able to deploy services with an optimized and fully automated pipeline. This includes infrastructure changes deployment using infrastructure as code through Terraform automation.
Migrating every service to AWS Platform will reduce internet traffic and enhanced application performance since the database is now on the same network as the computing services.
Through the use of SPOT instances for its containers, we are now able to web-scale our applications with an optimised cost structure, paying only for the computing resources effectively used.
The diagram below illustrates the ECS design used:
Find out more about Wealthi and our technology collaboration partners DNX.
