How PickMe used Google Cloud Platform to Reduce Management Overheads and Build a More Reliable Infrastructure
PickMe is a Sri Lankan brand that provides mobility solutions through an app.
Challenges
- Difficulty with scaling - Friday evening traffic surges
- Unable to choose the instance sizes of choice
- Increase in lead time needed for procuring new servers
- Sporadic downtimes
- Difficulty to iterate faster
Solution
- Prior to migration, Searce ran a thorough assessment of then existing on-prem infra and came up with the following services inventory to enable these services to talk to each other
- Consolidated servers and services to arrive at a multi-tiered, highly available and, scalable architecture on Google Cloud
- Deployed a large fleet of self managed MySQL servers with a complex replication topology of multiple masters and slaves behind proxysql along with the managed CloudSQL databases for postgres and MySQL
- Migrated to GKE to pave a path toward further modernisation of Infra
Business Impact
- Latency reduced by 10x with more reliable infrastructure
- Reduced infra spend a better DR setup
- Reduced management overhead
