Challenges

IIT Madras wanted the response time of their application to be less than 1 sec for 10000 concurrent users. They required the scalable infrastructure to handle peak loads and surges.

IIT Madras faced issues with the app not giving the required response and wanted to reduce management overhead. They wanted the response time of their application to be less than 1 sec for 10000 concurrent users. They required the scalable infrastructure to handle peak loads and surges.

Searce Solution

Searce helped IIT Madras leverage App Engine which is serverless, helps to deploy apps and also reduces management overhead. Searce designed a full-fledged PAAS solution to focus on innovation rather than management. The team deployed the application in App Engine Standard 2nd Gen with Cloud SQL and memory store for Redis in the back end for high availability and scalability.

Business Impact

The App of IIT Madras was able to achieve a lean response time of less than 1 second for 10000 concurrent users. There was an increase in developer productivity and the highly efficient and resilient systems functioned smoothly at a reduced burn rate.

About IIT Madras

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras is known both nationally and internationally for excellence in technical education, basic and applied research, innovation, entrepreneurship and industrial consultancy.