Yaantra partners with Searce & Google Cloud to help consumers with a single window stopover for smart gadgets in India
Company Overview
Yaantra is helping Indian consumers with a wide assortment of smartphones and services with a strong base of 1,20,000+ satisfied clientele, which is growing every day and at this very moment too. Till date Yaantra has repaired more than 60,000 smartphones and has infused more value to its customer’s digital investments. Yaantra is a single window stopover that caters to all smartphone queries such as broken glass, water damage, software problem, and power issue etc. with best in the industry services. Refurbishing the smart gadgets is what Yaantra’s Mantra is.
Google Cloud results
- Reduced infrastructure cost by upwards of 30% & operational costs by a margin of 50%
- Eliminated the challenge of frequent access to application & database from suspicious IPs
| Support app reliability for 1,20,000+ customers |
Modernizing and Scaling applications while reducing costs
With the onset of COVID -19, stepping out of our homes for any issues related to smartphones was a tough decision. At the same time, it was necessary to keep our devices in their right state to ensure visibility of the recent updates in the city,country with respect to COVID cases, lockdown updates & recent guidelines by the government. The situation asked for consumers to look for options over the internet to help them repair their smartphones and hence Yaantra started seeing an increase in traffic.
As for any B2C company, increase in user traffic would proportionately relate to more infrastructure needed for the applications & database to support the user request, ensuring every customer is able to submit their query. Also, as more & more consumers started eyeing online solutions, no downtime could be afforded as it would directly affect decrease in business in these challenging times.
Hence Yaantra started exploring other CSPs with the objective of reducing infrastructure costs & ensuring application performance is improved at the same time. Searce, alongside help with the Google Cloud team, implemented a complete TCO analysis on GCP for the then existing Yaantra’s landscape. Google Cloud was able to present savings of upwards of 30% basis the details received. This comforted the Yaantra team in exploring the platform further in terms of tech capabilities.
Achieving application & database security with GCP native network services
It was often observed by the Yaantra team about an increase in traffic to the application from specific IP addresses. These were malicious infringements with the objective to achieve downtime of the application by overloading with requests.
This is required for a solution to ensure such requests are not served to these IP addresses. Searce team supported the challenge by suggesting implementation of “Adaptive Protection” under Cloud Armor. Google Cloud Armor Adaptive Protection helped in protecting Yaantra’s workloads on Google Cloud such as applications, websites, and services against L7 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks such as HTTP floods and other high-frequency layer 7 (application-level) malicious activity by leveraging the built-in machine-learning models that do the following:
- Detect and alert on anomalous activity
- Generate a signature describing the potential attack
- Generate a custom Google Cloud Armor WAF rule to block the signature
Ensuring seamless migration for the MySQL Database
Yaantra was inherently leveraging managed MySQL database service in the then existing landscape. Due to reduced operational overhead and scalability, the team opted to leverage Cloud SQL as their managed database service offering on GCP. Yaantra had also implemented serveral SQL jobs for analytics on their database. This meant, ensuring seamless migration with the objective of the following:
- Successful restore of the existing data on the database
- Successful restore of all the SQL jobs implemented
Searce & Google Cloud team were able to completely migrate the MySQL database to Cloud SQL using the full backup & restoration method. Post the migration, the Yaantra team was able to test the migration data and restored SQL jobs on the pre-prod servers & eventually going live with the production environment.
From DevOps to NoOps, future ready infrastructure with Google Cloud
By choosing Google Cloud managed offerings such as Cloud SQL and the managed services offerings by Searce, the DevOps team at Yaantra can now focus on new application release, product features, version control etc. rather than managing their cloud infrastructure and can now operate with a smaller workforce saving operational costs by a 50% margin. With the Business growing rapidly and business forecasts of doing 10X in business by year 2023, Yaantra feels confident with Google cloud’s infrastructure that auto-scales per the requirement without any pre-warming and a dedicated managed services & support team at Searce that function 24X7 round the year.