Welastic Sp. z o.o.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am an executive at CorporateGift.com

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

CorporateGift.com provides businesses with a platform to manage and customize corporate gifting for employees, clients, and partners, offering a wide selection of personalized and branded gift options.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Welastic Sp. z o.o. to accomplish?

• Provide 24/7 DevOps support to ensure continuous system reliability and availability.
• Streamline integration of advanced personalization features and optimize backend systems for efficiency.
• Implement robust data analytics capabilities to gain insights into user behavior and inform strategic decisions.

SOLUTION

How did you find Welastic Sp. z o.o.?

Online Search

Why did you select Welastic Sp. z o.o. over others?

• Close to my geographic location
• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Welastic Sp. z o.o. were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

CorporateGift.com is a cloud-based application hosted on AWS, leveraging the platform's scalability, reliability, and global reach to deliver seamless user experiences. Welastic plays a critical role in managing the DevOps infrastructure, ensuring efficient and secure architecture design and maintenance tailored to our business needs. They provide 24/7 support to monitor and optimize system performance, handle deployments, and implement best practices for scalability and uptime. This partnership enables us to focus on innovation while maintaining a robust and secure technological foundation.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• Improved System Uptime: Achieved 99.9% uptime through enhanced monitoring and 24/7 DevOps support.
• Scalability Gains: Successfully scaled infrastructure to handle a 40% increase in user traffic without performance degradation.
• Faster Deployments: Reduced deployment times by 25% with streamlined CI/CD pipelines.
• Enhanced Security: Implemented advanced security measures, leading to a 30% decrease in potential vulnerabilities.
• Optimized Costs: Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 20% through efficient resource allocation and architecture planning.
• Imporved Disasted Recovery: Reduced recovery time to 2 hours in DR drills. 

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Welastic demonstrated excellent project management throughout the engagement, consistently delivering items on time and aligning with our timelines. Their proactive communication and structured approach ensured clear prioritization of tasks, enabling smooth progress even during complex phases of the project. They were highly responsive to our needs, quickly addressing any concerns or adjustments required, and maintained flexibility to accommodate evolving requirements without compromising quality.

What was your primary form of communication with Welastic Sp. z o.o.?

• In-Person Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

What stood out most about Welastic was their deep technical expertise combined with a proactive and solution-oriented approach. They excelled at anticipating challenges and providing innovative solutions that aligned with our business objectives. Additionally, their responsiveness, flexibility, and commitment to delivering high-quality results made them a standout partner in achieving our goals.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Welastic Sp. z o.o. could have done differently?

Welastic demonstrated good project management skills throughout the engagement. However, the consistency in using project management tools and communication methods could have been improved. At times, it was challenging to track time spent effectively and maximize the efficiency of the retainer. Despite these challenges, Corporategift maintained strong communication, and feedback was actively considered to enhance processes.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of Arc Software

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Software dev

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Welastic LLC to accomplish?

• Main challenge was to create a scalable solution able to handle petabytes of data, which will allow Arc Software to create new platforms for each end client within hours instead of weeks.

SOLUTION

How did you find Welastic LLC?

Referral

Why did you select Welastic LLC over others?

• High ratings
• Close to my geographic location
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

How many teammates from Welastic LLC were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

We successfully met all objectives by leveraging AWS Cloud. The infrastructure is designed to streamline the creation of new end-client accounts using Infrastructure as Code tools. For scalable and long-term storage, we chose Amazon S3, allowing us to store petabytes of video content with minimal operational effort. To reduce storage costs, we utilize Amazon S3 Storage Classes, including Amazon S3 Glacier for analytics-related data. We’ve also established robust backup policies with AWS Backup, ensuring sensitive data is automatically stored across multiple regions, improving both security and data integrity. Additionally, we implemented Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) to manage and scale our containerized applications, providing both flexibility and high availability. For data analytics, we rely on Amazon Redshift to efficiently process large datasets, enabling fast, data-driven insights.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Highly available hybrid environment with little to zero downtime. Leveraging Amazon S3 in scale to handle petabytes of data with no operational overhead. Express creation of new accounts for individual clients in PaaS model within 6 hours.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Their delivery was on time.

What was your primary form of communication with Welastic LLC?

Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

None

Are there any areas for improvement or something Welastic LLC could have done differently?

None

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Business and systems analyst of CorazLepszaFirma.pl

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Business management training for micro and small enterprises

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Welastic Sp. z o.o. to accomplish?

• Creating AWS infrastructure for existing applications
• Separation of environments into development, stage and production
• AWS Infrastructure Support and Maintenance

SOLUTION

How did you find Welastic Sp. z o.o.?

Referral

Why did you select Welastic Sp. z o.o. over others?

Referred to me

How many teammates from Welastic Sp. z o.o. were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Migration and maintenance of existing IT infrastructure to AWS and separation into production and development environments.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Correctly created environments in AWS infrastructure

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Projects and tasks were carried out correctly and on time. Reports were carried out quickly and with due diligence. Contact in a nice and friendly atmosphere

What was your primary form of communication with Welastic Sp. z o.o.?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Individual approach to the client. They always found time to meet and explain all inconsistencies.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Welastic Sp. z o.o. could have done differently?

I don't remember at the moment