Use case
Redash Migration to ECS Fargate for Enhanced Performance and Reliability
- Pruthviraj Rajput
About the Customer
Sociavia is a SaaS platform empowering retailers to provide social shopping experiences directly to their consumers, bypassing third-party social platforms. Created to disrupt the online shopping landscape, Sociavia gives retailers unparalleled control over their users’ social experiences. By enabling collaborative shopping, corporate retailers can optimize conversion rates on their websites while delivering better user experiences.
Customer Challenge
The Redash application hosted on EC2 instances faced several challenges that affected its efficiency and reliability:
- Manual certificate renewal every three months created operational overhead, posing risks of downtime if the process was delayed or missed.
- Inconsistent query performance affected the usability of the application for analytics and decision-making.
- Frequent instance status check failures led to degraded system reliability and increased maintenance efforts, hampering operational efficiency.
Solution
To overcome these challenges, IAMOPS migrated the Redash application from EC2 instances to AWS ECS Fargate, leveraging container orchestration for improved automation, performance, and reliability. Key steps in the migration included:
1) Automated Certificate Management:
- Integrated AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to automate the certificate renewal process, eliminating the need for manual intervention.
2) Optimized Query Performance:
- Containerized the Redash application to dynamically allocate resources using ECS Fargate, ensuring optimal performance tailored to workload demands.
3) Improved Reliability:
- Leveraged ECS Fargate’s health checks and auto-healing capabilities to enhance application uptime and ensure consistent reliability.
Results and Benefits
By migrating the Redash application to ECS Fargate, Sociavia achieved significant improvements in operational efficiency, performance, and reliability:
- Eliminated Operational Overhead: Automated certificate renewal reduced manual tasks, saving operational teams an average of 2-3 hours per quarter.
- Enhanced Query Performance: Dynamic resource allocation improved query execution times by 30%, enhancing user experience. Unlike the EC2 setup, ECS allows flexible scaling of resources without downtime or disruption to running queries.
- Increased System Reliability: Frequent status check failures on EC2, often caused by memory shortages, were reduced by 90% post-migration. ECS’s dynamic scaling capabilities ensure consistent uptime and reliability, even during peak loads.
- Operational Efficiency Gains: Freed operational teams to focus on more strategic tasks due to reduced maintenance efforts.
About IAMOPS
IAMOPS is a full DevOps suite company that supports technology companies to achieve intense production readiness.
Our mission is to ensure that our clients’ infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines are scalable, mitigate failure points, optimize performance, ensure uptime, and minimize costs.
Our DevOps suite includes DevOps Core, NOC 24/7, FinOps, QA Automation, and DevSecOps to accelerate overall exponential growth.
As an AWS Advanced Tier Partner and Reseller, we focus on two key pillars: Professionalism by adhering to best practices and utilizing advanced technologies, Customer Experience with responsiveness, availability, clear project management, and transparency to provide an exceptional experience for our clients.
