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Understanding customer's business and technical challenges, Quadra, as an AWS partner, delivered DevOps solutions using native AWS Developer tools to implement fully automated CI/CD pipelines and re-architect cloud-native solutions.

Automated software releases were achieved using AWS Code Pipeline for the React and Node.js tech stack. The process integrated source code with a well-defined branching strategy followed by builds, tests, and deployment phases, packaging the final output as a zip code package to an S3 bucket. The pipelines were configured with automatic rollback mechanisms to handle deployment failures.

Version-controlled Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with AWS CloudFormation templates automated the provisioning of a serverless environment, ensuring Services consistency across all environments and adherence to predefined configurations, along with rollback capabilities.

• AWS CodeCommit for effective source code management to improve collaboration and tracking features for the software development team.
• Static Code Analysis using AWS CodeGuru Security.
• AWS CodeBuild for automated builds, tests, and reports, and AWS Code Pipeline for a complete end-to-end CI/CD pipeline setup for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates.
• Once the code is committed, AWS Code Pipeline is triggered, pulling the code from the source repository. It then executes the build phase and runs tests using AWS Code Build. Upon successful completion, the final artifacts are deployed to an S3 bucket, with Lambda functions handling the backend and S3 serving the frontend.
• AWS Lambda functions as serverless compute for the backend and API Gateway to invoke those functions.
• Amazon S3 for hosting the frontend, served via Amazon CloudFront.
• Visibility into pipeline execution and histories with detailed logs and metrics for monitoring and troubleshooting using Amazon CloudWatch.
• Automated Infrastructure provisioning using AWS CloudFormation.
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Quantifiable Improvements

Leveraging Modern DevOps tools and practices improved customer team’s productivity in several aspects:

• Fully automated AWS CI/CD solution eradicated the risk of manual-prone errors entirely and accelerated the development cycle by 50%.
• Leveraged fully managed services, reducing operational overhead on Infrastructure provision and management by 80%.
• Eliminated individual/developer dependency for builds and tests.
• Increased developer productivity by 70%,allowing them to focus more on product engineering and delivering new features, as AWS Developer tools automate the builds, tests, and deployments.
• CI/CD pipelines enabled continuous feedback loops, with automated builds and tests providing rapid feedback on code changes. This feedback loop facilitates quick iteration, bug fixing, and feature refinement based on real-world usage and feedback.
• Increased services uptime SLA by 99% through implementing high availability architecture for applications and leveraging fully managed AWS services.