aleios

Pinwheel are experts in identifying environmental recovery projects that can make real change. As part of this mission Pinwheel wanted to build a platform for large scale events to raise awareness and engagement with sustainability projects by democratising how funding is invested. Pinwheel worked with aleios to build a scalable, reliable and dynamic voting platform for this event. The architecture aleios built is an entirely white label solution, meaning the same dynamic platform can be reused for future events. The project was completed in just 4 weeks. An aleios team worked directly with the Head of Engineering at Pinwheel to build the backend infrastructure and frontend voting interface in a fully Serverless approach. Serverless met the needs of fast development velocity, low operations overhead and dynamic scalability for the massive event peak traffic. The team also took the opportunity to move pinwheel to a fully Headless CMS, enabling the marketing team to have a self service interface of event creation, and wider modernization of Pinwheel’s technical stack.

Gamercraft needed to support high traffic spikes during large-scale Esports tournaments. aleios helped Gamercraft to identify Serverless on AWS as the optimal target architecture for their MVP and beyond. Serverless ensured Gamercraft could move quickly to meet market demand, while simultaneously future proofing their platform for larger scale tournaments. aleios worked with Gamercraft to build their initial MVP and release it to real end users within just 14 weeks. This validated product hypotheses and demonstrated the economic and performance advantages of a Serverless architecture. Our AWS Serverless Hero, Ben Ellerby, ran workshops with the Gamercraft in their New York offices, mapping the business domain to the technical architecture using Domain-Driven Design techniques.

From concept to release in less than 3 months, we helped Lapse launch a scalable application that reached Number #1 in the UK/US App Stores and secure $12.5M in funding. Lapse is a new social media platform that lets users create groups to take photos wherever they are. The two founders, came to aleios after reading about the scalability Serverless can bring. An initial consulting mission created an architecture roadmap for their initial MVP and beyond. Startups face two main challenges: funding and scaling sustainability. Serverless architectures allow for rapid growth at low cost by allowing businesses to only pay for what they use. This feature is particularly valuable for platforms with varying usage patterns, for example high spikes on the weekend. Serverless allowed Lapse to move quickly when creating new features, deploying and testing them multiple times per day - all with an engineering team of less than 5 people, supporting huge traffic scaling.