Success Story - DevOps

About Customer: DotDash Meredith Inc. is a leading digital and print publisher that owns and operates some of the most renowned lifestyle, health, and entertainment brands, including Better Homes & Gardens, People, Health, and Investopedia. Known for its innovative approach to content creation and delivery, the company boasts one of the most unique and complex software design systems in the industry. This system integrates cutting-edge technology to seamlessly manage diverse content types, ensure scalability across millions of users, and deliver personalized, high-quality experiences across platforms. DotDash Meredith combines data-driven insights with creative excellence to set new standards in modern publishing and digital media.

Support Needed: Simplify the system by automating various uses cases in the software delivery ecosystem. NGN Advisory Solution

• Understand the current workflows and simplify them by adding better logging statements Improve the backup process of software builds by creating AWS S3 storage buckets and ensure they can be accessed anytime after the Jenkins upgrades.

• Automated the process of identifying thousands of deprecated docker images and replace them with the new stable versions which are available in the Market.

• Created Grafana dashboards to check for AWS resource Quotas so as to proactively monitor them before they go out of limits

• Identify the critical resources and provide a solution for data protection in an event of a disaster.

• Update all the RDS databases which have reached End of Life for support.

Tech Landscape

Cloud: Amazon Web Services(AWS), Google Cloud Platform(GCP)

Database: AWS RDS, AWS Document DB, AWS Aurora

Tools: Git, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Vault, Artifactory, PagerDuty, Slack

Technologies: Java, Python, NodeJS, PHP, DevOps, Version Control System(VCS), Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Monitoring and Observability, Configuration Management Business Benefits

Yet to receive from Rakshit

• Streamlined DevOps functions to increase release reliability and velocity. This resulted in more predictable and quicker delivery