Case Study | Pokkt | Lift & Shift, Move & Improve
Problem Statement
- Infrastructure was spread across multiple regions in AWS
- Massive data processing with more than 10 TB of data ingestion everyday
- Scalable and cost effective platform was needed to address their growth
Solution
- Consolidated infra from multiple accounts and created strong foundations on Google Cloud Platform
- All applications running on EC2 instances were migrated to GCE and GKE
- Deployed self managed Kafka clusters that process massive volumes of data on GCE
- Implemented custom DNS based load balancing and made use of spot instances to save cost
- Helped migrate from MongoDB to BigQuery for data processing and implemented cost optimization dashboards
Outcomes
- Ability to scale the infrastructure based on number of incoming requests
- Modernized database layer with Cloud SQL for operational database and BigQuery for analytics
- Improved performance, latency reduced by 30%, cost savings by 25%
Infra & Application Modernization
POKKT is a leading mobile video advertising platform in India, South East Asia & MENA with a strong focus on rewarded Video Ads within Mobile Games. Brands.
Services and Tools
- Compute Engine (GCE)
- Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
- Cloud DataProc
- Kafka, MongoDB
- Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana
- BigQuery
- Data Studio