Overview
A fast-growing media startup experiencing exponential traffic boosts required a transition from basic monolithic web hosting to an enterprise-grade highly available cluster supporting their heavy WordPress based architecture.
Key Responsibilities & Impact
- Engineered a robust, highly resilient WordPress architecture hosted top of Azure to handle massive concurrent traffic spikes.
- Implemented High Availability (HA) using Azure Load Balancers routing requests to multi-VM scaled sets handling frontend web queries.
- Decoupled the CMS databases migrating to clustered, fully managed remote database instances for ultimate performance.
- Built complete end-to-end infra provisioning code utilizing Terraform and built automated CI/CD pipelines governing CMS deployments and plugin updates securely.
Result
Delivered an elastic system where page load latency was effectively halved. The startup could launch viral marketing campaigns without the fear of cascading server resource exhaustion.