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Tech Partnership with a Construction Software Company
A five-year collaboration accelerating engineering velocity, strengthening system resilience, and elevating security across a mission-critical construction platform.
78%
senior & lead engineers with 3+ years on the project.
100% reliability
through improved stability, scalability, and faster time-to-market.
Technologies
Ruby on Rails
Kafka
Redis
AWS S3
Service-Oriented Architecture
Deprecation Toolkit
Zeitwerk
Expertise
Legacy modernization
Real-time data streaming
Client Overview
Construction Software Company
Our client is a leading global platform that helps organizations manage construction projects more effectively. Its cloud-based solutions unify teams, simplify collaboration, and enable informed decision-making throughout the entire project lifecycle.
Industries:
Construction SaaS, project management software
Country:
USA
Challenges
Strengthening Engineering Capacity and Modernizing a Complex Platform
The client needed to scale delivery, optimize legacy components, and increase security and reliability across a large, mission-critical construction platform.
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Need for strong engineers
The company needed to find strong engineers to ensure secure file access and storage, efficient legacy app optimization, real-time data streaming, boost robustness, security, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
Accelerating delivery
The client needed to find strong engineers to accelerate software delivery, ensure efficient legacy app optimization, and boost security.
Legacy optimization pressure
Efficient legacy app optimization was required to support continued growth and maintain system reliability.
Rising security expectations
The company needed to find strong engineers to ensure secure file access and storage.
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Why They Chose Us
Proven Partner for Complex, Long-Term Engineering Initiatives
The client selected Zoolatech for its ability to provide highly skilled engineers, fast team scaling, and consistent delivery across a large mission-critical platform.
Top-tier senior engineering talent
With 78% senior and Lead engineers, Zoolatech offered the high-caliber expertise required to tackle modernization, streaming, security, and legacy optimization work.
Fast and reliable team scaling
A recruitment process capable of staffing roles within 2–4 weeks ensured rapid expansion and continuity for ongoing initiatives.
Zoolatech is a senior-heavy engineering firm with Silicon Valley roots and a Miami HQ, specializing in legacy modernization, system re-architecture, and AI deployment to drive long-term, compounding value.
2017
Year Founded
600+
Employees
96%
Client Satisfaction
Workflow
Parallel Delivery Across Platform Modernization
Zoolatech structured the engagement into parallel workstreams to address legacy optimization, data streaming reliability, security improvements, and team scaling.
Phase 1
Team ramp-up and capability alignment
Zoolatech staffed Senior and Lead engineers, aligning expertise with each manager’s specific needs and establishing a fast recruitment process of 2–4 weeks.
Phase 2
Legacy assessment and prioritization
Engineers reviewed key legacy components to identify areas needing performance improvements, security hardening, and modernization.
Phase 3
Streaming and infrastructure stabilization
Specialized Database Reliability Engineers assessed Redis infrastructure and prepared a plan to enhance reliability and performance.
Phase 4
Data streaming readiness and standards definition
The team introduced Kafka best practices, SLIs/SLOs, configuration optimization, security measures, and incident response guidelines.
Phase 5
Long-term modernization and security evolution
Work expanded to Ruby and Rails upgrades, deprecation management, and readiness for advanced features and performance improvements.
By modernizing legacy components and strengthening streaming and infrastructure layers, we improved platform reliability, scalability, and time-to-market.
Solution
Comprehensive Engineering Support
The long-term partnership addressed critical technical areas, including secure file storage, Redis reliability, Kafka performance, and modernization of core application components.
File Storage Modernization Plan
After analyzing the existing cloud-based solution built using monolith architecture, we set a goal to improve:
- Standard access patterns working with the files
- Authentication and authorization for all functionalities working with files
- Auditing at the file level
- Storage independence
Centralized File Security, Access Control, and Auditing
Taking into account the identified gaps and security requirements for file storage and sharing, and the need for scalability, the Zoolatech team developed a solution using the service-oriented architecture. The platform includes the following:
Enhancement in performance
- Zoolatech’s Database Reliability Engineers conducted a thorough assessment of the existing Redis infrastructure.
- We developed an action plan to enhance the reliability and efficiency of the system.
- Zoolatech took ownership of the critical Redis infrastructure, becoming Subject Matter Experts on the technology.
Real-time data analytics
Our database reliability engineer (DBRE) implemented Kafka best practices in key areas such as Incident Handling, Topic and Database Management, Security, Compliance, and Disaster Recovery. Our approach included:
- Service level standards: Establishing Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Objectives (SLOs) for Kafka, setting ambitious yet achievable targets for system performance and reliability.
- Kafka configuration optimization: Adjusting cluster configurations to enhance performance and stability.
- Security enhancement: Strengthening the Kafka infrastructure against threats and vulnerabilities based on security recommendations.
- Custom monitoring: Developing bespoke Kafka monitors for proactive issue detection and quick response, preventing escalation.
- Incident response readiness: Creating detailed guides for effective issue management and resolution.
Legacy app modernization
- Ruby and Rails upgrade: This move addressed approximately 60 security issues and provides access to the latest improvements.
- Introducing advanced features: The upgrade facilitated access to advanced functionalities like real-time communication, enhanced security, more efficient memory usage, and improved web performance.
- Deprecation Toolkit adoption: This tool improved deprecation visibility and management, helping maintain code quality and consistency.
Results
Stronger Reliability, Security, and Performance at Enterprise Scale
The five-year partnership delivered measurable improvements across streaming, security, robustness, and global platform usability.
Enterprise-grade streaming reliability
Client has achieved 100% Kafka availability for its real-time streaming applications, and in the last two years, it tripled Kafka usage in terms of connections, topics, and data volume without any major incidents.
Security and modernization gains
The extensive upgrades have greatly enhanced the system’s capabilities. Firstly, the security infrastructure has been significantly reinforced. Secondly, the application’s robustness and scalability have been considerably improved.
Global expansion and compliance
Enabled the company to expand its market reach to major enterprises globally and facilitated compliance with ISO 19650 and other International Standards Organization requirements.
Business Value
Enabling Long-Term Stability and Innovation Across the Platform
The modernization, streaming improvements, and security enhancements created a stronger, more scalable foundation for teams across the organization.
Improved collaboration and global enablement
Enabled the global market of construction companies where teams, all stakeholders, and partners can collaborate on construction projects and share access to different kinds of documents.
Developer empowerment and code quality
The implementation of the deprecation toolkit has proven to be an invaluable resource for other teams and developers, assisting in avoiding outdated methods and effectively monitoring deprecation resolution progress.
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