Case Study: The Economist achieves stable microsite support and $50,000 annual savings with Itransition DevOps services

The Economist saves up to $50,000 yearly with Itransition

The Economist, a leading digital media publisher, faced challenges with frequent crashes across its portfolio of microsites and a need for additional DevOps support. They engaged Itransition for DevOps consulting and support services to resolve the stability issues and assist their in-house team.

Itransition diagnosed that the crashes were caused by a slow external API used for GeoIP lookups and solved it by implementing a new algorithm that used a local database instead. This provided immediate stability. Furthermore, Itransition's team automated server deployment and created a 'housekeeping' script for AWS that identifies unused resources. This script saves approximately $50,000 per year, and Itransition now provides ongoing 24/7 support for the customer's microsites.

The Economist