Client Overview
Lead School, a fast-growing EdTech company, provides digital learning solutions across India. To support its expanding user base of students, teachers, and parents, it needed a scalable, secure, and automated cloud-native infrastructure that could handle high demand while staying compliant.
60
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Faster deployments with automation
40
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Faster troubleshooting via observability stack
3
x
Scalability during exam surges
100
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Compliance-ready student data handling
The Challenge
- Monolithic architecture slowed down development and scaling.
- Manual infra setup created bottlenecks for deployment and testing.
- Needed to improve observability across apps to reduce downtime and troubleshooting delays.
- Security and compliance were critical due to student data handling.
- Infrastructure had to support cost-effective scaling as user demand spiked during school hours and exams.
What we did
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Established end-to-end infrastructure with Terraform, enabling one-click reproducible deployments.
- Microservices Migration: Transitioned monolithic systems into microservices on Docker Swarm, AWS ECS/Fargate, and EKS for flexibility.
- CI/CD Enablement: Created automated pipelines with GitHub Actions to accelerate deployments and reduce errors.
- Observability Stack: Built a full-stack solution integrating Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry for logs, metrics, and traces.
- End-to-End Tracing: Enabled distributed request tracing, improving debugging and performance monitoring.
- Compliance & Security: Implemented incident response frameworks and hardened infra to meet regulatory standards.
The Results
- Increased developer productivity through automation and microservices adoption.
- Reduced downtime with proactive monitoring and faster issue resolution.
- Ensured secure, compliant handling of sensitive student/parent data.
- Built a scalable foundation that grows with student adoption across India.
Technologies we used to support Lead School
AWS
ECS
Fargate
EKS
Docker Swarm
Terraform
GitHub
Prometheus
Loki
OpenTelemetry
Dynatrace
Microservices
