Spare Parts Operations

The Story

The client engaged FiftyFive Technologies to design, build, and deploy a customer portal from the ground up. Our role was to provide full-cycle custom software development and DevOps engineering. A dedicated team of cloud engineers, backend/frontend developers, and DevOps specialists was deployed to ensure the platform was scalable, automated, and production-ready. The engagement focused on enabling business growth while minimizing manual operations and infrastructure costs.

A Sweden-based aftermarket spare parts company requiring a scalable digital sales platform with automated infrastructure, real-time monitoring, and high system availability for expanding customer demand.

Sanjay

Lead of DevOps Engineer

The challenge

• > Designing a scalable and fault-tolerant infrastructure for portal deployment.

• > Implementing automated scheduling for daily operational jobs.

• > Deploying frontend and backend applications as containerized services.

• > Configuring secure and efficient traffic routing with real-time monitoring.

• > Reducing deployment time through CI/CD automation.

The solution

• > Built Dockerfiles and Docker-Compose for frontend and backend containerization.

• > Implemented multi-stage CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for automated deployments.

• > Created Kubernetes manifests for deployments, services, and Ingress routing.

• > Configured PostgreSQL, Application Gateway Ingress Controller, and Cert-manager using Helm in Azure pipelines.

• > Enabled path-based routing in Ingress for optimized traffic distribution.

• > Automated daily scheduled jobs for operational tasks.

• > Integrated real-time traffic monitoring on the application gateway for performance insights.

The outcome

The client gained a fully automated, production-ready portal that reduced deployment time by 70% through CI/CD pipelines and eliminated manual job handling with automated scheduling. Kubernetes orchestration improved uptime to 99.9%, ensuring stable operations during high-traffic periods. Real-time monitoring increased visibility into user behavior, enabling proactive performance management. The scalable infrastructure allowed the client to handle higher transaction volumes, reduce operational overhead by 40%, and deliver a faster, more reliable customer experience—directly contributing to increased sales and stronger customer trust.