Client: Nest Seekers

Nest Seekers International is a residential and commercial brokerage firm with offices throughout New York, The Hamptons, Beverly Hills, Miami, London and Seoul.

AWS Solutions Architecture

Brief

Nest Seekers web and background processing servers have been on Rackspace for many years, but now it's time to move. AWS offers Docker hosting and managed database services that will reduce costs, improve scalability and resilience, while decreasing maintenance and complexity for future developers.

Delivery

[Work in Progress]

Previous deployments have been done manually, with Puppet and lately with Ansible. Kubernetes still requires substantial expertise (and full-time devops). Terraform was chosen for its clean declarative syntax and large library of reusable modules.

AWS offers high-availability managed databases with continual backups, built in monitoring, and automated software patches. In case of disaster, data can be quickly restored to any point in time.

The new infrastructure reduces configuration complexity while increasing security and scalability.

Continuous Deployment:
- Developers make Pull Requests to Github
- Automated Tests run (frontend and backend)
- Docker images are built
- Frontend application is built
- Staging or Production server updates automatically
Docker containers running on autoscaling AWS Fargate
Static content (including JavaScript and CSS) served from HTTP/2 Cloudfront CDN

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Ansible

Fargate

Elastic Container Repository

Memcached

Cloudwatch

RabbitMQ

Django

Celery

TravisCI

NodeJS

Customer Relationship Management
Integrated marketing and sales pipeline

Property Listings Syndication
Import Real Estate listings from multiple sources

Drip Mailing Campaign
Reactivate recent visitors, bringing them back to the website

AWS Solutions Architecture
High availability web and task servers with Continuous Delivery