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Ensuring internal expertise

Steamhaus worked with Modulr to design and build an EKS and Fargate platform on AWS, ensuring the business followed best practices, and providing proactive knowledge transfer to internal teams throughout the engagement.

The engagement began with an in-depth discovery process, capturing in detail the business, technical and operational drivers for the project. The key deliverable from the discovery was a Technical Specification and Statement of Work, capturing the architecture and build process. In addition to EKS the new architecture included both EC2 and Fargate launch types, to provide compute resource and container scheduling for all applications and services.

A key requirement for Modulr in the delivery of the project was to ensure that its internal teams were given the ability to manage and continuously evolve the new platform, by being able to independently release code in the future.

To enable this to happen we delivered a “See one, Do one, Teach one” component within each sprint, which provided opportunities for risk-free, hands-on experience with the new technologies – and also provided a repeatable model which would enable the core project team to cascade knowledge to engineers across the rest of the business.

This approach involved Modulr engineers observing how Steamhaus built an EKS cluster during a planned knowledge transfer session, followed by those engineers carrying out the same task themselves. They then delivered this training to colleagues in other teams during peer-to-peer training sessions.