Success Story
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Cloud Modernization

HIPAA Compliant Kubernetes Platform For Healthcare Startup

About the Project

About this Success Story

The client wanted to set up their entire application stack on a HIPAA-compliant cloud-agnostic Kubernetes platform on AWS and Google Cloud Platform. Symvoulos was able to successfully set up the production environment in a record time of 2 months. The automation using Terraform enabled their teams to easily set up additional environments across AWS and GCP by just running a command.

Capabilities:

Cloud & DevOps

Technologies:

Google Cloud
Kafka
Kubernetes
MongoDB
Sysdig
Terraform

About the client

The client is in the healthcare space where it is building an open intelligence system and lets medical professionals and trainees everywhere collaborate. The non-profit organization is financially backed by leading venture firms like Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

Where we started

Understanding the Challenge

The client wanted to set up their entire application stack on a HIPAA compliant cloud-agnostic Kubernetes platform on AWS and Google Cloud Platform.

A few critical challenges were:

  • The application consists of Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Python-based Application servers. The customer would like to set up all the components on Kubernetes using DevOps tools like Terraform. The customer would like to manage their infrastructure via code and the ability to quickly spin up environments for Staging, QA, etc.
  • The Kubernetes environment should be production-ready with strong resilience, elasticity, and observability. The production environment should always be HIPAA compliant.
What we did

How we Made it Happen

  • Symvoulos chose Terraform as the DevOps tool of choice and automated the entire environment setup. Symvoulos leveraged the Consul for service discovery and inter-service communication.
  • Observability: Symvoulos setup cluster and application monitoring using Sysdig and Prometheus. Symvoulos setup logging using Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana. To create a unified dashboard for telemetry and logs, Symvoulos set up Honeycomb - a popular observability solution.
  • Resiliency: Symvoulos setup regional multi-zonal clusters ensuring Kubernetes nodes and the services are running across multiple zones.
  • Elasticity: The team set up node pools with auto-scaling enabled. This ensures all that nodes in each pool can scale based on the load. Additionally, each node and the services have the right labels, taints, and tolerances to ensure efficient scheduling of workloads across nodes.
  • Cloud agnostic: Symvoulos abstracted away cloud-specific functionality by writing wrapped scripts on top of Terraform providing cloud-agnostic interfaces to easily deploy and manage their Kubernetes cluster and the applications.

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Leading Mental Health Provider

Chief Product Officer

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US-based IT Company

Vice President of Engineering

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Workflow Automation Company

Vice President of Operations

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Global Media & Entertainment Company

Chief Technology Officer

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Entertainment Technology Company

Vice President of Engineering

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Investment Research & Wealth Start-up

Product Manager

Team Symv did a great job! Their team handled the requirements, updates, and queries well and was always in sync with our roadmap and goals.

Leading Israel-Based Broadcasting Company

Chief Technology Officer

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Chief Technology Officer

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Multi-national Automotive Manufacturing Company

Vice President of Technology

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Health-tech Start-up

Chief Technology Officer

Working with Symv felt like they were a part of our own team. We especially appreciate how well they maintained the remote collaboration.

Investment Research & Wealth Start-up

Chief Operating Officer

The pace of the project was remarkable, and team Symv was able to complete the project before the originally set deadline, which was already demanding.

US-based Ed-tech Start-up

Product Head

The application is now more robust, efficient, and user-friendly than ever before. Symvoulos has been instrumental in propelling our growth.

Healthcare Start-up

Chief Technology Officer

For us, time was of the essence to deploy the new platform. Symvoulos understood the need and worked round the clock to get the new platform to production in record time.

SaaS-based Solution Provider

Product Manager

The team is dedicated to maintaining a consistent communication plan. They have proven to be trustworthy and talented, making for a successful partnership.

Australian Healthcare Giant

Chief Technology Officer

The Symv team was quick to understand the problem, design the new data platform, understand the risks, and implement the solution in record time.

Leading Technology Security Giant

Product Lead

The Symv team consistently demonstrates a high level of expertise and professionalism and goes above and beyond to deliver exceptional results.

Pioneering Technology Start-up

Head of Product Strategy

Symv has been nothing short of exceptional. Their team seamlessly integrated with ours, quickly grasping our needs and providing valuable insights and suggestions.

What we Achieved

Where Symvoulos Made a Difference

Our team completed the entire production environment set up in 2 months.
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Enabled team to set up additional environments across AWS and GCP with just one command.
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Setup easy to manage, monitor, and predictable environment.
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