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Business challenge of a Fortune 500 company<\/h2>\n

\u200bOur client is one of the top tire manufacturing companies globally and is among the world\u2019s leading operators of commercial truck service and tire retreading centers ranked on the Fortune 500 list. Headquartered in the US, the company has numerous business offices, manufacturing facilities, warehouses, and retail<\/a> locations across the globe to deliver its products and services to consumers in almost every country of the world.<\/p>\n

The rise of technology across many verticals has necessitated the company\u2019s move to digitization. Despite our client\u2019s long-standing global success, they aimed at the strategy of continuous innovation to drive business growth and strengthen their position as a premium worldwide brand. They decided to develop a fleet management platform<\/a> to get all the advantages of microservices architecture<\/a>: optimize logistics and supply chain management<\/a>, reduce documentation processes, speed up the workflow, and maximize service efficiency.\u200b
\n\"Microservice<\/p>\n

Solution delivered<\/h2>\n

\u200bOur client started building a solution with their own in-house team, rebuilt the application with the help of the other provider, but it soon became obvious that they needed a professional technology partner to take their solution to the next level. The quality of code didn\u2019t allow the application to scale, and in many respects, it was outperformed by competitors\u2019 similar products. The organization\u2019s growing IT infrastructure posed yet more challenges. As new services appeared, the infrastructure was no longer in sync with the existing application. Our client needed a way to localize and layerize all the upcoming business data. The new platform was also supposed to go beyond the company\u2019s existing markets and fuel expansion into the Near East and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

They started looking for a reliable engineering partner with relevant experience and stopped their choice on Intellias due to our proven expertise in mobile and SaaS-based on AWS laaS development.<\/p>\n

Our engineers are implementing a new back-end architecture to facilitate ongoing changes to the infrastructure spurred by emerging microservices. From the technological point of view, the project uses some of the most innovative technologies. The back-end code is written in Lambda, a serverless technology based on AWS, with the help of Node.js. Our team uses Cognito for authentication and Terraform for building an infrastructure in AWS.<\/p>\n

With all the new public and private networks (or microservices), the system has quite a complicated architecture. To speed up implementation, we complemented the team of three Node.js developers and a PM with a DevOps engineer to prepare testing and production environments and deploy builds.<\/p>\n

\u200bOur client\u2019s microservice platform designed by Intellias experts come in several major subservices that include:<\/p>\n