Growth School: Revolutionizing Online Education Through Strategic DevOps Transformation

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About the client

Growth School is an online learning platform that bridges the gap between industry requirements and traditional academic curricula. It focuses on delivering high-quality, industry-relevant content efficiently to learners.

Growth School approached Pace wisdom to adopt DevOps practices to enhance productivity, optimize processes, and build a stronger collaborative engineering culture. The goal was to implement a comprehensive DevOps solution to solve challenges around staffing, scaling, and maintaining fast-paced project development.

Challenge

  • Growth School faced critical DevOps and platform scalability challenges that affected delivery speed, reliability, and costs.
  • Scalability and Performance Difficulty scaling fast-paced projects locally, which limited the ability to keep up with growing learner demand and new initiatives.
  • Talent and Productivity Gaps Finding and retaining skilled DevOps engineers locally was difficult, leading to slower delivery and increased dependency on manual effort.
  • Manual, Error-Prone Releases Heavy manual involvement in build and release processes caused delays, higher error risk, and inconsistent promotion of code across environments.
  • Limited Visibility and Monitoring Lack of actionable metrics and real-time monitoring made it hard to know when code was production-ready and to proactively respond to issues.
  • High Infrastructure Costs Inefficient resource utilization and non-optimized infrastructure choices drove up cloud infrastructure costs as usage scaled.

Solution

Pace wisdom implemented a multi-faceted DevOps solution leveraging cloud, automation, and best practices to modernize Growth School’s delivery pipeline.

Hybrid Team Structure

A hybrid team model was created combining Pace wisdom's DevOps experts with Growth School’s internal team. This enabled knowledge transfer and promoted a collaborative work environment rather than a traditional outsourcing setup

Automated CI/CD Pipeline

AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and GitHub Actions were used to automate build and test pipelines. This significantly reduced manual intervention in the software release process and improved release reliability.

Terraform was used to manage production AWS resources such as EC2, RDS, and ElastiCache. This ensured consistent, repeatable infrastructure provisioning and simplified environment management.

Configuration Management

Ansible was introduced to configure infrastructure and deploy services across all servers. This streamlined deployment and reduced manual configuration effort.

Containerization

Docker was used to containerize applications, improving portability and scalability across environments.

Pipeline Optimization

The team analysed the entire pipeline to identify bottlenecks. Optimization efforts resulted in a 50% reduction in deployment times.

Cost Optimization

Services were made compatible with more cost-effective infrastructure types. This led to a significant reduction in overall infrastructure costs.

Enhanced Testing

Linting and testing steps were added at multiple stages in the continuous integration pipeline. This improved code quality and reduced the risk of faulty releases.

Comprehensive Monitoring

A monitoring system was built using Grafana and AWS CloudWatch. This provided a real-time, unified view of applications, services, and infrastructure in production.

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Technology used

  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): GitHub Actions
  • Containerization and Image Registry: Docker, AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform
  • Configuration Management: Ansible
  • Monitoring: Grafana, AWS CloudWatch
  • Cloud Platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Impact

The DevOps engagement delivered clear, measurable outcomes for Growth School.

50% faster deployment cycles

30% reduction in infrastructure cost

Higher release quality

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Growth School: Revolutionizing Online Education Through Strategic DevOps Transformation

Overview

Growth School is an online learning platform that bridges the gap between industry requirements and traditional academic curricula. It focuses on delivering high-quality, industry-relevant content efficiently to learners.

Growth School approached Pace wisdom to adopt DevOps practices to enhance productivity, optimize processes, and build a stronger collaborative engineering culture. The goal was to implement a comprehensive DevOps solution to solve challenges around staffing, scaling, and maintaining fast-paced project development.

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Growth School: Revolutionizing Online Education Through Strategic DevOps Transformation

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About the client

Growth School is an online learning platform that bridges the gap between industry requirements and traditional academic curricula. It focuses on delivering high-quality, industry-relevant content efficiently to learners.

Growth School approached Pace wisdom to adopt DevOps practices to enhance productivity, optimize processes, and build a stronger collaborative engineering culture. The goal was to implement a comprehensive DevOps solution to solve challenges around staffing, scaling, and maintaining fast-paced project development.

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Technology used

  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): GitHub Actions
  • Containerization and Image Registry: Docker, AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform
  • Configuration Management: Ansible
  • Monitoring: Grafana, AWS CloudWatch
  • Cloud Platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Growth School: Revolutionizing Online Education Through Strategic DevOps Transformation

Executive Summary

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Growth School is an online learning platform that bridges the gap between industry requirements and traditional academic curricula. It focuses on delivering high-quality, industry-relevant content efficiently to learners.

Growth School approached Pace wisdom to adopt DevOps practices to enhance productivity, optimize processes, and build a stronger collaborative engineering culture. The goal was to implement a comprehensive DevOps solution to solve challenges around staffing, scaling, and maintaining fast-paced project development.

Woman coding at dual monitors.
  • Growth School faced critical DevOps and platform scalability challenges that affected delivery speed, reliability, and costs.
  • Scalability and Performance Difficulty scaling fast-paced projects locally, which limited the ability to keep up with growing learner demand and new initiatives.
  • Talent and Productivity Gaps Finding and retaining skilled DevOps engineers locally was difficult, leading to slower delivery and increased dependency on manual effort.
  • Manual, Error-Prone Releases Heavy manual involvement in build and release processes caused delays, higher error risk, and inconsistent promotion of code across environments.
  • Limited Visibility and Monitoring Lack of actionable metrics and real-time monitoring made it hard to know when code was production-ready and to proactively respond to issues.
  • High Infrastructure Costs Inefficient resource utilization and non-optimized infrastructure choices drove up cloud infrastructure costs as usage scaled.

Pace wisdom implemented a multi-faceted DevOps solution leveraging cloud, automation, and best practices to modernize Growth School’s delivery pipeline.

Hybrid Team Structure

A hybrid team model was created combining Pace wisdom's DevOps experts with Growth School’s internal team. This enabled knowledge transfer and promoted a collaborative work environment rather than a traditional outsourcing setup

Automated CI/CD Pipeline

AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and GitHub Actions were used to automate build and test pipelines. This significantly reduced manual intervention in the software release process and improved release reliability.

Terraform was used to manage production AWS resources such as EC2, RDS, and ElastiCache. This ensured consistent, repeatable infrastructure provisioning and simplified environment management.

Configuration Management

Ansible was introduced to configure infrastructure and deploy services across all servers. This streamlined deployment and reduced manual configuration effort.

Containerization

Docker was used to containerize applications, improving portability and scalability across environments.

Pipeline Optimization

The team analysed the entire pipeline to identify bottlenecks. Optimization efforts resulted in a 50% reduction in deployment times.

Cost Optimization

Services were made compatible with more cost-effective infrastructure types. This led to a significant reduction in overall infrastructure costs.

Enhanced Testing

Linting and testing steps were added at multiple stages in the continuous integration pipeline. This improved code quality and reduced the risk of faulty releases.

Comprehensive Monitoring

A monitoring system was built using Grafana and AWS CloudWatch. This provided a real-time, unified view of applications, services, and infrastructure in production.

  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): GitHub Actions
  • Containerization and Image Registry: Docker, AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform
  • Configuration Management: Ansible
  • Monitoring: Grafana, AWS CloudWatch
  • Cloud Platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

50% faster deployment cycles

30% reduction in infrastructure cost

Higher release quality