First Indian Self-Driving Car Rental Company Refines AWS DevOps Practices by Banking on CloudThat’s DevOps Competency

Industry

Self-Driving Car Rental Service

Expertise

DevOps and DevSecOps

Offerings/Solutions

Highly secure and robust infrastructure to handle massive traffic

About the Client

Zoomcar is an Indian self-drive car rental company headquartered in Bangalore, India. Zoomcar holds the distinction of being India’s first personal mobility platform. With a strong focus on the mobile experience, Zoomcar allows users to rent cars by the hour, day, week, or month.

Highlights

60%

Containerization of applications

Lambda Function

Implemented for several automation solutions

99.9%

Uptime released with new features

The Challenge

To refine the AWS infrastructure and improve the performance, scalability and cost optimization along with standard DevOps practices to support customer growth.

“You are known for ownership in Zoomcar DevOps. You always come forward willingly to accept responsibility and assist people. You believe in the outcome and constantly provide constructive input. Within a short span of time, you have proved your effective DevOps skills. Your assistance beyond our expectations, especially given our constrained bandwidth. Most of the operational difficulties (such as logging) could not have been fixed without your assistance.”

- Mohit Kumar

Solutions

Deployed applications in multiple environments like development, Quality Assurance (QA), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and production.
Implemented highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant microservices deployed on Amazon EKS clusters across multiple environments with horizontal pod autoscaling and cluster autoscaling enabled.
Implemented Continuous Integration, Continuous delivery, and deployment to support hotfixes, rollback on failure, multi-environment deployment following the DevOps best practices. 
Implemented application performance monitoring in New Relic to understand and trace dependencies across the distributed system to detect anomalies, reduce latency, squash errors, and optimize customer’s experience.
As a content delivery network (CDN), Implementing cybersecurity, web and internet security for bot detection and alerting system to avoid malicious attacks on mobile and web applications provides an extra edge to the business.
Used Jira Boards for planning, tracking, releasing, and reporting the issues to have synchronous workflow within the teams.

The Results

Now the client has a continuous delivery process with a restructured DevOps team, leading to fewer defects and a change failure rate. In addition, the client is now equipped with cross-skilled engineers who can collaborate on various projects and achieve better operational support to ensure that the fixes are much faster than before. Although team members are assigned to different tasks based on their expertise.

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