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Blue Pearl‘s core service offerings range from Business Intelligence to Big Data and Data Analytics. The company strives for perfection and aims to be the best Business Intelligence company in South Africa and Globally. Through their powerful Data Visualisation Tools, they ensure a customer gets clear insights into their data and can therefore make the best decisions.
The app (www.blueapp.blue) matches consultants and organisations and brings them together for projects. “We really think we are setting trends in this space,” said Saireshan Govender, the CEO of Blue Pearl. “We call ourselves the Air BnB of contracting, but we offer far more than that. We enable people who never thought they could be entrepreneurs to be entrepreneurs.”
Since its launch in June 2020, Blue App has enrolled over 200 skilled consultants and 17 companies and has sold more than 11235 project hours.
The Blue Pearl team knew that in order to scale and meet the future demands of their customers, they would need to adopt a cloud solution. So they started by building a development environment on AWS to experiment with the services available.
One of the biggest challenges Blue Pearl was hoping to overcome was scalability, and so they decided that the best solution would be a serverless environment. However, the internal development team had limited experience with developing a serverless environment and asked Silicon Overdrive to assist with architecting a scalable, cost-effective, secure serverless environment.
Silicon Overdrive worked with the Blue Pearl team to design a secure, highly-available architecture that would leverage serverless design principles.
After the initial discussions, we redesigned their environment to use MongoDB, an open-source, NoSQL database that provides support for JSON-styled, document-oriented storage systems, AWS Lambda, an event-driven, serverless computing platform, AWS Config, a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources and more. We also used AWS Amplify, a Serverless Framework platform for building secure, scalable mobile, and web applications which makes it easy to authenticate users, securely store data and user metadata, authenticate selective access to data, integrate machine learning, analyze usage metrics, and implement server-side code.
The architecture and recommendations were based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and AWS, ISO 27001 and GDPR security best practices to limit the risk of a breach, and non-compliance with regulatory requirements.
The new environment was built to AWS best practices and met all of Blue Pearl’s business requirements. Blue Pearl can now scale their operations in a serverless environment, allowing for the faster onboarding of new customers while also meeting their security, scalability and availability requirements.
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