endorsedOngoing

Rails-based Event Analytics & Venue Measurement Platform

Services Covered:

Custom Software Development • UI/UX Design • Software QA and Testing • Cloud Consulting and Services • DevOps

Industry

Arts, Entertainment & Recreation

Duration

163 months

Budget

50K - 199K

Start Date

1 January 2013

Team Size

1-5 Employees

Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

75/100

Good

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Client

Confidential

London, United Kingdom

Project Summary

RubyGarage acted as an external engineering partner for an events analytics startup, providing core platform development, customization, QA, design, and project management while the client scaled their in-house team. They supported architecture and an AWS migration, implemented elastic search for large datasets, and provided flexible on-demand engineering resources. The client praises the team's availability, responsiveness, and ability to onboard engineers quickly.

Key Challenges

Delivering core development, customization, strategy, design, and implementation support as an external partner
Building a complex platform that calculates positional data and generates reports from large datasets
Adapting the product and roadmap to shifting commercial models and tight client budgets
Improving development rigor, estimation accuracy, and quality assurance as the product evolved

Project Deliverables

Core event analytics platform (MVP)
Elastic search functionality handling ~0.5 TB of data
Reporting and positional data calculation features
AWS migration and cloud architecture
Ongoing developer resources and QA support

Project Solution

RubyGarage provided design, QA, project management, and development services for the client's event analytics platform. They delivered the core platform and MVP, implemented elastic search functionality, assisted with architecture changes, and migrated services from IBM Catalyst to Amazon Web Services in under a month. The vendor supplied elastic, on-demand engineering resources (scaling teams up or down within weeks) and adapted to the client's project-management tools and processes.

Project Outcome

The initial MVP was delivered within roughly 10 weeks and completed in March 2014
Engineers from RubyGarage became productive within one month of joining
Elastic search functionality supports approximately 0.5 TB of data in the client's clusters
New engineering resources are added within 2–3 weeks of request
Migration to Amazon Web Services completed in under a month

Platforms

Cloud
Web

Tech Stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Elasticsearch
Ruby on Rails
Bitbucket
Jira
Confluence

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

4.75

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“RubyGarage is a dedicated and engaged partner. The team is flexible and adjusts resources as needed. They are always available, working on weekends and holidays without additional charge. They accommodate changing circumstances and go out of their way to meet deadlines or requirements.”
Anonymous
Founder & CTO
Date: 05/18/2016