SaaS on Google Cloud | Case: Agileday

Agileday Scaling Their SaaS Business on a Rock-Solid Google Cloud Foundation

Agileday, a fast-growing SaaS company, was facing an opportunity to upscale their cloud infrastructure and ensure reliability. Codento, a Google Cloud expert, helped Agileday optimize their cloud architecture and automate SRE tasks, resulting in significant improvements in scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

Agileday, a venture-capital backed technology company based in Finland, is on a mission to help organizations enhance their performance through their innovative SaaS platform. This platform consolidates data from diverse domains like sales, projects, and strategy, facilitating employee engagement and data-driven decision-making.Founded in 2022, Agileday has quickly grown its customer base, requiring additional expertise to harness the full potential of Google Cloud, the foundation of their multi-tenant SaaS architecture.

Codento, a specialist in Google Cloud with comprehensive cloud foundation architecting skills and roots in software intelligence, was selected to assess Agileday’s current setup and plan short and long-term steps forward. Codento’s Google Cloud-certified experts started with a comprehensive and tailored assessment of the cloud architecture, then advanced towards concrete improvements by further codifying the backend infrastructure using Terraform, a first-class citizen IaC tool on Google Cloud.

Agileday also wanted to advance their Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) journey by making full use of logging and monitoring tools. Google pioneered the SRE discipline, and its practices have set standards for the industry. Codento automated the manual operational tasks related to observability, again using Terraform to codify as many components as possible in the Google Cloud’s operations suite.

“Codento’s partnership with Agileday resulted in a significant improvement to the customer’s cloud architecture and SRE capabilities.”

The assessment resulted in a detailed list of recommendations, with associated findings, according to the pre-defined priorities refined with the customer. Codento also produced Terraform code for backend infrastructure and observability stack according to Google and Codento best practices that could be integrated into the customer’s existing code base. The collaboration with Codento provided Agileday the benefit of specialized knowledge and additional bandwidth to increase its Cloud infrastructure maturity without impacting ongoing feature development.

How Codento helped Agileday achieve their goals:

Codento’s Google Cloud expertise and understanding of Agileday’s business needs were key factors in their selection.
Codento’s comprehensive and tailored assessment of Agileday’s cloud architecture identified concrete areas for improvement.
Codento’s use of Terraform to codify backend infrastructure and observability components enabled Agileday to automate manual operational tasks and streamline their SRE operations.
Codento’s Terraform code was developed according to Google and Codento best practices, ensuring that Agileday’s cloud environment is scalable, reliable, and secure.

Overall, Codento’s partnership with Agileday resulted in a significant improvement to the customer’s cloud architecture and SRE capabilities. Agileday is now able to efficiently scale, develop, and troubleshoot services while keeping end users happy.