About Ryte
Ryte
(formerly OnPage.org) is known since its launch in 2012 for sustainable quality management of websites and for helping clients optimising their platforms with a deep analysis and reporting.
The Challenge
Since 2012 Ryte has been offering an application for analysing and reporting customers optimisation potentials as SaaS. The software platform is based on a modern microservice's architecture, but was hosted in a traditional datacenter. For the migration project to AWS, PCG was chosen as a competency partner.
Being located in a datacenter caused the common issues to occur over time, like managing fleets of application containers, permissions, scalability, snapshots, database, everyday patches etc. Maintaining the performance and uptime of the application bound too much valuable engineering time, so Ryte decided to move to a managed platform.
The Solution
Making the most out of AWS offerings, Ryte and PCG planned not only a migration, but also an improvement of the architecture.
Besides more common AWS services, the following are integral parts of the migration and continued hosting:
- AWS Database Migration Service for PostGreSQL;
- Amazon Elastic Container Service;
- Elastic Load Balancing - Application Load Balancer that serves both at the same time: traditional Puppet deployed EC2 instances as well as Docker containers running on AWS ECS.
Our Contribution
Following the AWS Security and Design Guidelines, PCG together with Ryte’s engineers defined the target infrastructure, described and rolled it out via Terraform (Infrastructure as Code). PCG also led in setting up the final account for organization structure and permission scheme - again using Terraform for reproducibility. This way, every development squad became an access to multiple AWS accounts separated into dev, testing, and production.
Results and Benefits
Besides the obvious relief by using IaaS and SaaS, the software platform itself is now even more manageable by CI/CD processes. By using the Infrastructure as Code approach, DevOps principles could perfectly be followed in source code management - feature branches, code reviews, merges, and rollout to production.
The Upshot
Instead of implementing traditional scaling techniques, Ryte uses managed infrastructure components that shift responsibility further down to IaaS and SaaS solutions. This way, its engineers can concentrate on improving and developing their platform.
About PCG
Public Cloud Group (PCG) supports companies in their digital transformation through the use of public cloud solutions.
With a product portfolio designed to accompany organisations of all sizes in their cloud journey and competence that is a synonym for highly qualified staff that clients and partners like to work with, PCG is positioned as a reliable and trustworthy partner for the hyperscalers, relevant and with repeatedly validated competence and credibility.
We have the highest partnership status with the three relevant hyperscalers: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Microsoft. As experienced providers, we advise our customers independently with cloud implementation, application development, and managed services.