E-commerce case study · Single specialist
Sample case study: placeholder content, not a real client result.One senior DevOps engineer cut cloud costs 38%
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Key results
- Monthly cloud spend
- −38%
- vs. the average of the 3 months before the migration
- Black Friday uptime
- 99.98%
- vs. two outages the previous year
- Deploy time
- 12 minutes
- down from about half a day of manual work
At a glance
A mid-sized online retailer in the United Kingdom needed one senior DevOps engineer to stabilise its infrastructure before peak season. Fleekminds placed a Kubernetes and Terraform specialist in 6 days. Monthly cloud spend fell by 38% and the site handled Black Friday traffic with 99.98% uptime.
What challenge did the client face?
The retailer ran on hand-configured virtual machines. Its two backend developers spent about a day a week on deployments, and the site went down twice during the previous year’s Black Friday.
Why IT staff augmentation instead of hiring?
The work needed deep, senior DevOps experience for about six months, then light maintenance. A permanent senior hire would have been under-used after the migration.
What did Fleekminds provide?
Fleekminds placed one senior DevOps engineer who moved the platform to Google Kubernetes Engine, defined all infrastructure in Terraform and built GitHub Actions pipelines the backend developers now run themselves.
How did the engagement work?
The engineer joined in 6 days, paired with the backend developers for the first two weeks and handed over runbooks for every service before peak season.
What results did the client see?
- Monthly cloud spend
- −38%
- vs. the average of the 3 months before the migration
- Black Friday uptime
- 99.98%
- vs. two outages the previous year
- Deploy time
- 12 minutes
- down from about half a day of manual work
What did the client say?
“One engineer, and our deploys went from a weekly chore to something nobody thinks about.”
Key takeaways
- Fleekminds placed one senior DevOps engineer with a UK online retailer in 6 days.
- Moving to Kubernetes on Google Cloud reduced monthly cloud spend by 38%.
- The retailer’s site handled Black Friday with 99.98% uptime after two outages the year before.
Frequently asked questions
Can Fleekminds provide a single DevOps engineer rather than a team?
Yes. In this engagement Fleekminds placed one senior DevOps engineer, who joined the client’s existing backend team in 6 days.