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Real-time Messaging & Infrastructure Scaling for Online Classroom

Services Covered:

IT Consulting • Cloud Consulting and Services
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Industry
Industry

Education

Duration
Duration

12 months

Budget
Budget

Less than 10K

Start Date
Start Date

1 January 2020

Team Size
Team Size

Confidential

Engagement Model
Engagement Model

Nearshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

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72/100
Good

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Client

LearnCube

map United Kingdom

Project Summary

Romexsoft provided IT consulting and infrastructure engineering for an online classroom provider to scale services during a COVID-19 demand spike. The vendor implemented a cost-optimized real-time messaging backend using AWS API Gateway (WebSockets), Lambda and ElastiCache, improved monitoring and autoscaling, and recommended AWS-managed services. The client reported lower costs, reliable performance and responsive collaboration.

Key Challenges

  • Scale services rapidly to handle peak Covid-19 demand
  • Improve reliability and system response time
  • Decrease operating costs and proactively identify performance issues

Project Deliverables

  • Real-time WebSocket backend using AWS API Gateway and Lambda
  • AWS ElastiCache-backed storage with high availability
  • Vue.js client-side WebSocket integration
  • CloudWatch logging and monitoring
  • Autoscaling and monitoring improvements
  • Cost-optimization of real-time messaging (replacement of third-party pub/sub)

Project Solution

Romexsoft recommended and implemented a real-time messaging backend using AWS API Gateway (WebSockets), AWS Lambda and ElastiCache, with client-side WebSocket initiation from Vue.js and Node.js Lambda handlers. They improved monitoring (CloudWatch), autoscaling and overall infrastructure performance, and provided 24/7 managed monitoring and support to optimize costs and reliability.

Project Outcome

  • Reduced costs compared to the client's previous third-party solution
  • Proven reliable and scalable architecture
  • Responsive collaboration, smooth handover and proactive infrastructure recommendations

Platforms

  • WebWeb
  • CloudCloud

Tech Stack

  • Vue.jsVue.js
  • Node.jsNode.js
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

5star

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“The system introduced by Romextsoft was significantly cheaper than the client's previous third-party alternative. The product was reliable. The team was responsive, easy to work with, and facilitated direct calls for the project's progress.”

Daniel O'Reilly

CTO

Note: This endorsement is based on publicly available client feedback from external review sources.

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