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An iGaming technology provider that delivers a full-featured aggregation platform and tailored software solutions for operators and B2B partners in regulated online gaming markets.
The client’s platform integrates with over 130 leading game providers, offering advanced user management, bonus control, analytics, and reporting tools to support sportsbook, casino, and risk management needs.
Because digital agility and IT advancement is cornerstone to define success and business continuity, [Client Name Confidential] has kicked started a journey with SORINT’s team to refine its tech landscape, and therefore business context.
Moving from a constrained present to a scalable, cloud-native future. These initiatives focused on evolving a static infrastructure into a dynamic ecosystem ready to support client’s global growth and innovation. A project that leads to overcoming major operational issues such as service interruptions.
Breaking Free from Static Constraints
Our discovery phase began with a critical analysis of the “As-is” situation.
The initial architecture, while functional, relied on isolated, single Google Compute Engine (GCE) instances for critical functions like the Web Server, APIs, and Database Proxy. This created Single Points of Failure (SPOF); if one instance failed, the entire service stopped. An approach that is far from embracing Business Continuity.
This legacy setup caused several operational hurdles, for instance:
- Limited Scalability: High difficulty in scaling resources efficiently to meet demand.
- Conflicting Workloads: Different processes competed for the same resources, leading to performance bottlenecks.
- High Management Overhead: Manual tuning and instance management required significant operational effort.
- Downtime Risks: Update operations frequently caused service interruptions due to a lack of redundancy.
A Vision for a Dynamic Ecosystem
The transformation was guided by three core principles: automatic scaling, designing for failure, and leveraging managed services (PaaS/SaaS) to reduce maintenance effort. Important to mention, this evolution was designed to occur without disruptive changes to the application code, focusing instead on improving the resilience and performance of the existing technology stack.
Engineering Infinite Scalability
At the heart of our new architecture is the implementation of Managed Instance Groups (MIG).
This shift replaced single instances with groups of identical, self-managed VMs capable of reacting dynamically to load.
With key transformative features:
- Auto-Healing: If an instance fails, the MIG automatically recreates it to ensure service continuity.
- Auto-Scaling: The number of VMs automatically increases or decreases based on real-time metrics like CPU utilization, ensuring optimized costs.
- “Golden Image” Consistency: Every instance starts from a single VM template (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS), guaranteeing uniformity across the environment.
- Zero-Downtime Updates: The new system enables rolling updates and ‘Blue/Green’ or ‘Canary’ deployments, allowing the client’s team to release new code without interrupting the user experience.
Intelligent Traffic and Managed Data
To support our client’s global user base, particularly across the EU and South America, an intelligent traffic distribution layer was introduced.
Global Application Load Balancers now manages the international traffic, reducing latency and improving responsiveness by routing users through Google’s high-speed backbone.
Data persistence was also modernized by migrating to fully managed GCP solutions. By adopting Cloud SQL for relational databases and Memorystore for Redis for high-availability caching, the project eliminated the previous reported bottlenecks and reduced maintenance effort to near zero. The infrastructure was segmented into dedicated, isolated networks for frontend, backend, and testing environments to minimize the attack surface and enforce ‘Least Privilege’ access.
Concrete Benefits for the Business
The transition was executed in a controlled, four-phase path, from foundation preparation to final optimization, to minimize production impact.
The results have turned the infrastructure into a strategic asset to the client. Making previous IT and operational hassles a thing of the past.
- Elastic Capacity: Performance now adapts automatically to demand peaks.
- Increased Agility: The development team can now focus on application innovation rather than server maintenance.
- Enhanced Reliability: Automatic redundancy between zones has eliminated single points of failure.
- Operational Excellence: A structured maintenance lifecycle ensures long-term efficiency, safety, and cost control through regular “Golden Image” updates and performance analysis.
Today, [Client Name Confidential] stands on a platform that is not only more reliable in terms of the digital experience it now brings to its end-users, but also more business agile and resilient. Having tackled today’s challenges and ready to support our client’s innovative ambitious visions to lead the sector in which they operate!
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