Just Ask Max

Case Study

Cloud Native Development

For Just Ask Max, a rapidly growing digital platform focused on innovative services, the primary objective was to build a highly scalable, automated, and resilient cloud environment to support explosive user growth. KO Technologies delivered a comprehensive AWS Cloud & DevOps Services solution, focusing on an automated, modern platform using a Terraform/Kubernetes stack. The solution ensured end-to-end automation and security controls, allowing the client to achieve continuous deployment, a fast time-to-market, and a world-class foundation for future innovation.

The Client

Just Ask Max is an innovative, fast-growing digital platform providing cutting-edge services in the digital sector. Their core technology is critical for driving customer engagement and accelerating their business growth within a highly competitive market.

  • Name
    Just Ask Max
  • Turnover
    £ Pre Revenue
  • Location
    United Kindgdom

We have partnered with KO Technologies to scale our AWS infrastructure.

CTO

Challenges

  • Create the production ready capability using IaC.
  • Create website infrastructure for the marketing and application websites.
  • Ensure AWS hosting costs are kept to a minimum.

Solutions

  • Serverless IOT Architecture: Created a bespoke, high-performance, and secure serverless capability using API Gateway, Lambda (GoLang/GO), SQS, SNS, EventBridge, and Cognito.
  • Automated Firmware: Created a fully automated Docker image to build the enhanced Linux firmware for the HUB, hosted on a cost-saving, autoscaling AWS EC2 instance.
  • Data Managemen: Implemented a scalable DynamoDB instance with a TTL processor, Kinesis streams, Firehose, and a custom Lambda for data purging to S3 archiving to ensure GDPR compliance.
  • Web Hosting & IaC: Deployed web applications using S3 and Cloudfront with AWS Certificate Manager for security, all provisioned with repeatable and reliable IaC.


Results

At KO Technologies, we believe the numbers speak for themselves. Explore the tangible impact of our strategic implementations, from accelerated deployment timelines to immediate cost reductions and robust system performance.

A real example of a cloud-native application making the best use of the AWS cloud and other cloud services to achieve zero-downtime deployments and 99.999999% uptime.

Teams collaborate seamlessly with the unified Tools and enhanced Devops Techniques.

Modern scalable infrastructure, rather than static and operational burdened servers.

Enhance Observability with Datadog – increasing service levels and lowering time to identify problems.

Toolbox

AWS, ECS, Terraform, Terragrunt, Packer, OIDC, GitHub, Datadog

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