Case Study: zyBooks achieves scalable, reliable DevOps with Fairwinds Managed Kubernetes

ZyBooks Accelerates Time to Kubernetes with Fairwinds Expertise

zyBooks, a provider of interactive course materials, needed to bolster the reliability of its AWS infrastructure and scale to meet rapidly growing user demand without having to expand its small internal engineering team. Their previous solution, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, lacked sufficient control and was causing consistent issues, creating concerns over data quality and system uptime during critical academic periods.

Fairwinds provided a managed Kubernetes solution, delivering the expertise of a dedicated team of specialists. This partnership allowed zyBooks to accelerate development, improve reliability to 99.99% uptime, and handle orders of magnitude more throughput. The Fairwinds solution provided 24/7 monitoring and a scalable, self-healing infrastructure, all at a fraction of the cost of building an equivalent in-house team.

zyBooks

Bailey Miller

Senior Software Engineer