Learn how a global leader in developing and manufacturing products for the life sciences research and clinical diagnostic markets, reduced cost of cloud operations with application modernization.
Challenges
- The client needed to modernize applications to make them cloud-ready and reduce time to deploy. This required re-writing and moving its solution that was originally built in .NET Framework 4.5 to AWS, using the latest Azure PaaS and Azure Functions and EventHub
- The client wanted to keep the same microservices application architecture and leverage the latest AWS serverless offerings to further reduce hosting costs
Solutions
- Persistent analyzed and identified performance issues related to database design
- Converted the .NET codebase to .NET Core and built new Lambda functions leveraging the .NET Core
- A performance issue related to new microservices was addressed by re-writing them in Golang
- While migrating CosmosDB to DynamoDB, Persistent implemented Neptune Graph DB to fit the kind of data which significantly improved performance for certain workloads
Outcomes
- Improved application performance times
- 40% reduction in operating costs
- 87% cut in deployment time, from eight to one hour
- Faster reporting and enhanced analytics
- Repeatable provisioning of environments using Terraform
