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Redesigned a production deployment workflow to reduce application downtime from 3–4 minutes to approximately 20 seconds.
The problem : A production application experienced approximately 3–4 minutes of downtime during deployments because build and release preparation happened as part of the live deployment process.
That meant users were affected by operations that did not actually require the production application to be unavailable.
The approach : I redesigned the deployment lifecycle around a build-and-promote strategy.
Instead of preparing the release directly against the live application:
- application builds happen before the production switch
- release artifacts are prepared independently
- production continues serving the previous version during preparation
- downtime is limited to the final promotion and application restart
The result : production deployment downtime dropped from approximately 3–4 minutes → ~20 seconds (acceptable for the target users)
The change reduced user-facing disruption without requiring a significantly more complex infrastructure architecture.
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MyCarrier: DevOps & Cloud Transformation for Scalable Logistics SaaS
Preview description:
We helped MyCarrier move toward cloud-ready DevOps: adapted the system for microservices, implemented CI/CD and test automation, moved workloads to Azure, achieved 99.9% availability, decreased update delivery time to minutes.
Full description:
Problem
MyCarrier was growing fast, and the monolithic codebase became harder and more expensive to maintain. It was heavy, resource-consuming, and less suitable for the client’s long-term scaling plans. The team also needed faster delivery processes, but changes in the codebase and cloud migration had to stay unnoticed by users. Their logistics workflows could not be interrupted.
Solution
IT Craft aligned the project infrastructure with a microservices architecture and prepared the system for cloud operation. The team started with a technical audit and developed the migration strategy consisting of 20-28 items. The process was divided into pre-migration, migration, and post-migration phases, thus the product could keep running while infrastructure changed step by step.
The team moved non-critical standalone jobs to the cloud, connected virtual machines to Azure Storage Account, moved logging to MongoDB Atlas, and transferred user data and related processes to the cloud. New app functionality was released as microservices. IT Craft also designed and fine-tuned a CI/CD pipeline, automated infrastructure deployments, and reduced update delivery time through regression test automation.
Results
· Achieved 99.9% system availability.
· Maintained high fault tolerance using three shared clusters.
· Reduced update delivery time from hours to minutes.
· Enabled Sprint focus changes every two weeks based on client priorities.
Tech Stack:
· Azure Cloud
· MongoDB Atlas
· Azure SQL
· Azure App Service
· Azure Functions
· Azure Storage Account
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"yesterday" lol every single time