Case Study: Cota Healthcare achieves scalable high-load oncology data platform with SoftwareMill

Cota Healthcare scales its platform with SoftwareMill over 3+ years

COTA Healthcare, a company that organizes and analyzes cancer data to aid patient care and research, faced challenges in scaling its Cota Abstraction Platform (CAP). Their intricate, high-load MedTech system was grappling with performance bottlenecks, technical debt from rapid growth, and the complexities of a monolithic codebase. They engaged SoftwareMill to help design a reliable and scalable architecture.

SoftwareMill's team addressed this by extracting a key part of the platform into a dedicated Scala service, introducing a denormalized read model to drastically improve database performance and latency, and creating an asynchronous job mechanism for long-running operations. They also implemented direct data exports to Google Spreadsheets and a robust set of end-to-end tests. The results were a significantly improved platform performance with the ability to handle larger data volumes without timeouts, enhanced developer experience, and the delivery of continuous business value, earning high praise from COTA Healthcare's leadership.

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