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Project Overview
Be-IQ, a fintech platform providing FCA-aligned behavioural investor profiling, was struggling with an unstable EKS setup that threatened their ability to serve financial advisers. Our DevOps team completely rebuilt their AWS infrastructure from the ground up, transforming a failing environment into a rock-solid, production-ready platform.
The Challenge
Be-IQ came to us with an AWS environment that was plagued by instability, poor performance, and operational challenges that made it nearly impossible to maintain.
- Failing EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) cluster with frequent outages
- No proper CI/CD pipeline causing slow and error-prone deployments
- MongoDB database lacking proper backup and scaling strategies
- Poor infrastructure-as-code practices making changes risky
- No monitoring or alerting—issues discovered only when users complained
- Critical fintech platform requiring high availability for financial advisers
Our Solution
We performed a complete infrastructure overhaul, migrating everything to a new AWS account with modern DevOps practices and battle-tested architecture patterns.
- Fresh AWS account setup with proper security foundations
- Migrated from problematic EKS to streamlined ECS architecture
- Built robust CI/CD pipelines for automated, zero-downtime deployments
- Implemented proper MongoDB hosting with automated backups
- Infrastructure-as-code using Terraform for reproducible environments
- Comprehensive monitoring and alerting stack
Technical Implementation
We designed a modern, scalable infrastructure that prioritizes reliability, security, and operational efficiency for a fintech SaaS platform.
- AWS ECS with Fargate for serverless container orchestration
- Application Load Balancers with auto-scaling policies
- GitHub Actions CI/CD with staging and production environments
- MongoDB Atlas integration with automated backups and monitoring
- AWS CloudWatch and custom dashboards for full observability
- VPC architecture with proper security groups and network isolation
- AWS Secrets Manager for secure credential management
Technologies Used
We leveraged AWS best practices and modern DevOps tooling to build a resilient infrastructure.
- AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) with Fargate
- AWS Application Load Balancer & Auto Scaling
- GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines
- Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
- MongoDB Atlas for managed database
- AWS CloudWatch, SNS, and custom alerting
- Docker for containerized deployments
Key Results
- Transformed unstable infrastructure into 99.9%+ uptime
- Reduced deployment time from hours to under 10 minutes
- Zero-downtime deployments with automated rollback capabilities
- Comprehensive monitoring preventing issues before they impact users
- Scalable architecture ready to handle growth in financial adviser users
- Full disaster recovery capabilities with automated backups
Why It Matters
Be-IQ now operates on a stable, scalable AWS infrastructure that their team can confidently manage. The migration from a failing EKS setup to a streamlined ECS architecture, combined with proper CI/CD and monitoring, transformed their operational capabilities and allows them to focus on their core mission: helping financial advisers understand their clients better.
Services Behind This Project
The same senior teams that delivered this work:
"Hiring Scalexa was one of the best decisions we made! They have built us a fully scalable, robust architecture and steered us through every step of the complex process. Not only have they delivered a vastly improved and stable hosting architecture, they also massively upgraded our security and with it my peace of mind! Scalexa has encyclopedic knowledge and understanding of Technology; they are strong communicators and, most importantly, deliver!"