Modernizing the Platform Performance with AWS

Industry: HiTech

Delivery Center: Brazil

Industry Context

Businesses are rapidly implementing hybrid and complex workforces as the Professional Employment Organizations (PEO) and Human Capital Management (HCM) market continues its high growth trajectory, with a forecast CAGR of 8–10% through 2028. To meet changing demands, this trend needs clever solutions that combine advanced analytics, AI, and ML. Nonetheless, firms in this sector must continue to place a high premium on data privacy issues and the requirement for scalable, effective technologies.

Client Challenge

The client, a provider of an HR platform aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, faced several challenges. Their existing data pipelines were slow and hindered the ability to deliver near real-time insights, limiting the platform’s effectiveness for business users. The legacy infrastructure could not scale efficiently with the growing demands and data needs of the client. The client also needed to adopt quality engineering practices to speed up release cycles and improve platform stability.

Approach

As an AWS Advanced Tier Partner, Encora leveraged AWS's powerful and scalable services to help the client modernize their infrastructure and address their challenges, seamlessly integrating these services into a containerized architecture.

The services Encora provided were:

Product Management: Added capacity to manage and fix issues in data flows, allowing the client’s teams to focus on higher-value tasks

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Architected, designed, and implemented a migration from Heroku to a modern, Kubernetes-based infrastructure using AWS EKS as the core service, along with supporting AWS services like EC2, RDS, S3, and ElastiCache

Product Development: Implemented a quick ramp-up of team members in the latest technologies, leading to the modernization of the client’s legacy monolithic application into a scalable containerized solution

Data Pipeline Engineering: Redesigned, re-architected, and delivered an MVP while scaling the client’s data pipeline on a modern data stack, enabling near real-time insights with DataOps

DevSecOps Strategy & Planning: Prioritized security by reducing vulnerabilities through thorough investigation and implementing solutions to ensure compliance with industry standards

Test Automation: Designed and implemented quality engineering infrastructure and techniques that automated functional and API tests, improving platform stability and accelerating testing processes, reducing manual intervention

AWS Services

Amazon EC2

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon Lambda

Amazon VPC

Amazon Relational
Database Service (RDS)

Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon EKS

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Secrets Manager

Amazon S3

Results

By leveraging AWS and implementing modern cloud services, the client saw significant improvements across several key performance areas.

Some notable outcomes of Encora’s solution are:

Reduced Data Pipeline Cycle Time: Reduced the time required to process and deliver data insights, enabling near real-time data availability

Enhanced Testing Efficiency: Implemented automated functional and API tests, reducing manual testing efforts, improving platform stability, and accelerating the testing process

Scalability and Availability: The new AWS infrastructure, including containerized applications, allowed the platform to scale efficiently and meet growing demand without downtime

Improved Security: The migration to AWS eliminated hundreds of critical vulnerabilities, ensuring a secure and compliant environment for both users and sensitive data

Faster Time-to-Market: With automated pipelines and improved infrastructure, the client reduced development cycle times and was able to launch critical features faster, enhancing overall product agility