The Story at a Glance
A leading logistics and supply chain solutions provider needed to scale its high-demand platform while ensuring reliability, performance, and security. Its existing infrastructure struggled to support rapid growth, prompting the need for a multi-cloud strategy to improve agility and resilience.
CleanSlate Technology Group designed and implemented a multi-cloud architecture across
AWS
and Azure, optimizing workloads for scalability, performance, and compliance. By leveraging Kubernetes, cloud-native services, and security best practices, the new solution enabled seamless scaling, improved system reliability, and strengthened the company’s security posture.
The result? A robust, future-ready multi-cloud platform that empowers the company to meet rising market demands while maintaining operational excellence.
What Had to Change
Integrating Three Cloud Services into One
CleanSlate needed to bring 3 different, isolated technologies together (
AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) and make them work securely & efficiently in a way that is naturally performant for the user who wants to receive an immediate voice response while bouncing between all clouds to get the answer & get the answer quickly.
Maintaining Complex Environments
There were too many different tech stacks to manage and not enough people to manage them. CleanSlate came in and consolidated the tech stack in order to better manage the tech stacks & skillsets by using a common language across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Transitional Changes/Growing Pains
There was a time delay between the initial MVP product launch and beginning to scale. As growth occurred, some of the systems Delta depended on were going out of date. Transitioning to enterprise-scale technology development and updating those new version systems, not just technologies, were challenging.
Standardization & Automation of Environments
There was a need to standardize the environments and automate both the creation and management of those environments in order to support scalable enterprise-size teams running in parallel with one another.
How CleanSlate Responded
Centralizing Cloud Services into Azure
CleanSlate encapsulated almost everything into Azure, hosting on a combination of Azure Functions and Azure App Services. The back-end logic, functionality, and data systems reside in Azure – while the Voice Skills and some performance-enhancing components exist within AWS & Google Cloud. This provided scalability and flexibility to write and develop those web services in different languages as well – some were in .net and Node. We were able to secure things more easily as a team, work more efficiently, and provide a better-performing system that had fewer points of failure that was able to recover problems more successfully when and if they did occur.
Leveraging to IoT Hub
By leveraging the IoT Hub for all of our IoT communications, CleanSlate was able to communicate efficiently with low-power devices with MQTT messages, both up and down. Those messages were then translated to messages in our internal message queue system that were then able to bounce around our internal system for processing on the backend.
Defined & Scalable Architecture
CleanSlate put definition and structure into the environment. We added IaC so we were able to repeat it and build out their different environments. Instead of taking months to understand and reproduce part of an environment, we can now build a brand-new isolated environment in less than 2 days; sometimes in less than 2 hours.
What Changed
Centralizing the cloud services into Azure, leveraging the IoT Hub, and having a defined and scalable architecture gives Delta the ability to scale up as quickly as needed to meet customer and market demands. By standardizing, defining, and scaling the architecture and implementing multi-cloud incorporation, CleanSlate:
- Implemented Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) that made it possible to create multiple environments and have multiple development teams working concurrently
- Consolidated the tech stack and were able to reuse some of the CI/CD platforms:
- Unit Testing Pattern
- Build Processes
- Release Processes
- Standardized the architecture for better, proactive monitoring to improve capabilities and site reliability
- Moved faster with patterns in place, ensuring the right quality control measures were in place before the app headed into production, leading to better app quality
Ready to Move Forward?
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