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Wagepoint

Business Requirements:

A Canada Headquartered bootstrapped startup that has evolved into a medium size business providing SaaS payroll services to over 23K clients in Canada needed 24×5 Managed cloud services for their AWS Environment as well as support in optimizing the application performance to cater to a growing number of clients.

Nuage Solution:

As a first step, we analyzed the ColdFusion-based application by monitoring the ColdFusion logs, Fusion Reactor APM, AWS instance metrics, and Database queries. Based on our findings, we adjusted the existing environment by fine-tuning the Java runtime settings and database settings, and indexes to improve the stability and performance of the existing setup.

As a next step, we migrated the environment to a Well-architected AWS environment covering the following:

• Migration from RDS to SQL Cluster based on AWS FSx
• Migration from EBS volumes to AWS FSx for shared data
• Right Sizing of AWS instances
• Implementation of
  • Load balancers
  • WAF optimized with Rate limiting rules to prevent attacks on the environment
  • Dynamic WAF Rule Updates from security events logged into Application Database
  • Network access policies including VPN-based access
  • Database and Filesystem backup process
  • Patch Management and Disaster Recovery Processes
  • CloudWatch Dashboard and Alerts
• Remediation support and guidance to the Application and DevOps teams

Post the migration, we used our AWS shared services to provide the Managed Cloud Services:

• Cloud Management and Monitoring
• Patch Management
• Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation
• Backup and Recovery
• Optimize configuration, performance tracking & fine-tuning
• Database Query optimization recommendations

With all the optimizations provided by us, Wagepoint has been able to process more than 10,000 payrolls in a day.

Technology Stack: 

• AWS Services: RDS, EBS. FSx, Load balancers, WAF, CloudWatch, VPN
• ColdFusion
• Fusion Reactor APM
• Java

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