An AI-powered content research and copywriting platform achieved a 70% reduction in CPU utilization.

About Customer

An US based AI-powered content research and copywriting platform that enables users to create blogs & other content by just typing in the relevant keywords.

Problem Statement

Due to the hosting of AI functionality tech infrastructure was incurring a huge cost.
APIs were going unresponsive/ time out during sudden surges in web traffic.
Migration from an existing tech stack to a new one for improving the overall performance was becoming a challenge due to a lack of expertise.
The production server runs at a CPU utilization of 100%.
Analytics dashboard was often facing database corruption whenever there was a huge volume of data to be processed.
DOS & DDoS attacks on the server were creating huge hindrances in the manageability of the platform.

Solution Offered!

Created an entirely new platform architecture and set up the AWS Infrastructure.
Shifted from existing Amazon RDS to EC2.
Introduced master and slave servers in production.
VPN was implemented in the public server for removing malicious traffic.
Implemented an internet-facing load balancer for routing the traffic to backed Ec2 instances.
Introduced IPv6 for enhanced performance.
Implemented packer with ansible for deployments.
Slave parameters were tuned in the production for reducing the over-utilization of the CPU.
Created two server backups & failproof mechanism for ensuring database availability at all times.
Upgraded Redash to version 10.
Implemented sentry for error tracking.