LINKIT!
Scaling a SAAS educational platform to support 2M users
Background
Helping K-12 teachers track and improve student performance
LinkIt! is an educational SAAS provider which uses real-time data and analytics to help schools.
PROBLEM
Old technology platform lacked support for large-scale growth
Their old platform couldn't handle the growing number of users and diverse data needs. It struggled with large datasets, varied data scenarios, and use cases and needed a scalable infrastructure. Devblock needed to fix this issue by improving data processing, fine-tuning calculations, adjusting data population methods, and scaling up the infrastructure. These changes were crucial to helping the platform support future growth.
SOLUTION
Re-built for seamless integration and large-scale usage
Devblock rewrote, re-built, and seamlessly integrated the platform to include the following:
Robust student assessment authoring and delivery
The student assessment authoring and delivery platform had online and offline capabilities and item banking tools.
Improved performance tracking framework
We created a fully-instrumented performance analytics and error reporting framework.
Improved dashboard
The new dashboard reporting platform supported multiple reporting segments.
IMPACT
Serving nearly 2,000,000 active users
Today LinkIt! serves thousands of schools worldwide with nearly a million active students. Devblock continues to develop the LinkIt! platform and has a team dedicated to its success.
25,000+
Active schools
2,000,000
Active users
Stack
Technologies
We implemented the LinkIt! platform's main reporting features in .NET Framework and hosted them on the AWS Cloud environment. Here are the technologies we used:
Microsoft Stack
Microsoft .NET
Microsoft SQL Server
MS Reporting
Other
OAuth 2.0
Loadtest with k6.io
AWS - Compute
EC2
Auto Scaling
Elastic Beanstalk
Lambda
AWS - Database
DynamoDB
Aurora
ElastiCache
AWS - Network and Content Delivery
API Gateway
VPC
VPN
ELB
CloudFront
Route53
AWS - Storage
S3
S3 Glacier
