Complete AWS migration with only 1 hour of downtime
Loop enables businesses to seamlessly manage money around the world with fx-free credit cards, free international transfers, and global accounts with CDIC protection.
Financial services
Cloud migration
Seamless migration to AWS with minimal downtime, replicated job queues, and fully redeployed services across production and staging.
Our Approach
Infrastructure as code
Mapped Loop’s existing Heroku setup to AWS and created infrastructure as code to represent, manage, and deploy all cloud services.
Application deployment
Containerized the Rails API and deployed API services to ECS Fargate for efficient, serverless container management.
Database migration
Executed a migration of a PostgreSQL database from Heroku to Aurora, completing the cutover with under 30 minutes of downtime.
CI/CD pipeline setup
Integrated GitHub and CircleCI with a trunk-based workflow, enabling one-button deployments and consistent, automated delivery.
Just-in-time production access
Implemented CloudWatch metrics, logging, and threshold-based alerts routed through Sentry and SNS to notify the team of performance or resource utilization issues.
Monitoring and alerting
Implemented CloudWatch metrics, logging, and threshold-based alerts routed through Sentry and SNS to notify the team of performance or resource utilization issues.
Technologies
