Impetus360: CI/CD for faster changes

Background

• Impetus360 is a Mumbai-based EduTech & Advanced HRTech-focused startup.
• Tweeny is an outsourced product development partner for Impetus360 and leads the entire product development & release cycle.

Concept

• QRUX is a system used by organizations of all sizes where employees can give/ receive behavioral feedback in a gamified way to/from other employees of the same organization upon a set of themes.
• The solution interfaces are open for consumer-facing mobile apps (Android & iOS) and organization admin-facing web dashboards.

Challenges

• Taking the conceptual level to a product in the hands of our customer Impetus360 which today it is, required a development approach that facilitates rapid iteration on the feedback and evolving requirements.
• Preparing the application for scalable deployments since day 1.
• Maintaining reliability & consistency across various demo and live-production deployments.

Approach to Solution

• Development is based on Micro-services architecture.
• Environments: Development, QA & Production.
• Micro-services are bundled into respective Docker containers.
• We use Docker for the “build” based on matching environment parameters and then testing every integration automatedly.
• Docker not only makes applications portable & scalable but also gives the flexibility to use the cloud infrastructure efficiently. This helps reduce management & deployment hassles.
• Jenkins for managing this build process on automation.

Stack

Application Technologies

• React Native
• Python
• Mongo DB

CI/CD

• Docker
• Ansible
• Jenkins

Results

• Made development and deployment cycles faster. This ensures the product’s time to market can be reduced without compromising on the coding and testing standards.
• Able to deliver the updates faster and for a variety of customer demos.
• More new features can be made live in less time, and the customer feedback cycle reduces the go-to-market time.
• Ultimately, Impetus360 can now demo its early-stage product to more customers and win more customers.

Conclusion

• The Micro-services-based integrated deployment practice helps application scalability.
• The CI/CD automated pipelines save 6-8 hours of developer’s time/week.
• Quality-assured code is built and deployed consistently. This not only makes the software robust but also a manageable measure to repeatedly deploy.
• This gives developers a framework to run automated tests before deployments every time.

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