For the nationally operating childcare agency ViaViela, Kabisa has developed various web applications. ViaViela is very progressive and has chosen to automate as many business processes as possible. Kabisa built the infrastructure and is responsible for monitoring and managing the cloud environment.
Heroku is a high-quality SaaS hosting solution, but it can become quite expensive when the applications running on it are heavily used. Furthermore, the solutions are sometimes limited, and it is not always clear what exactly happens when there are issues.
Following Kabisa’s recommendation, ViaViela decided to migrate from Heroku to AWS. AWS is the world’s largest cloud hosting provider where you only pay for what you actually use. For the new environment, we used Infrastructure as Code. Additionally, it is scalable, transparent, and highly available. This means that if there are issues with the servers hosting the platform, it is handled by other servers in a different location. This can minimize the risk of downtime. This is extremely important, especially for mission-critical (web) applications.
Kabisa ensured that ViaViela migrated from Heroku to AWS without any downtime. This demonstrates the ability to effectively plan and execute a complex migration with minimal disruption to the website’s users. The successful migration also resulted in improved performance, scalability, and cost savings for ViaViela. Certainly, an outstanding accomplishment for the Kabisa colleagues that contributed to this project!
The transition from Heroku to AWS realized by Kabisa resulted in a cost savings of 25% for ViaViela.
Creating a future-proof, reliable and safe infrastructure is a top priority. Therefore, we follow new technologies closely and are not afraid to use them if it benefits the end result.
