Over the past few months, I’ve been documenting my technical journey through the #100DaysOfDevOps challenge, diving deep into tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS Application Load Balancers. Today, I want to share exactly what I am building all this infrastructure for.
I am currently building Heeratrack, a B2B SaaS platform designed to modernize inventory management and worker allocation for the diamond manufacturing industry in Surat, India.
The Architecture Challenge
The diamond industry operates on micro-milligrams and strict security. A dropped database connection or a leaked inventory sheet is unacceptable. Here is how I am approaching the infrastructure:
High Availability with AWS EC2 & Auto Scaling
We cannot afford downtime during peak trading hours. I am deploying the core backend using Application Load Balancers (ALB) routing traffic to auto-scaling groups of EC2 instances. If traffic spikes, the infrastructure scales horizontally without manual intervention.Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
To ensure our environments (Development, Staging, Production) are identical and easily reproducible, I am writing the entire infrastructure using Terraform. This eliminates configuration drift and allows us to tear down or rebuild environments in minutes.Automated CI/CD Pipelines
As a two-person team, we need to move fast. I am setting up automated pipelines (using GitHub Actions and Jenkins) so that when my brother pushes a new feature in the MERN stack, it is automatically tested, containerized via Docker, and deployed seamlessly.
Building the infrastructure for a real-world SaaS is the ultimate test of my DevOps skills. In my upcoming posts, I will be breaking down the exact Terraform scripts, Kubernetes manifests, and AWS configurations I am using to build Heeratrack.
Let me know in the comments if you want a deep dive into any specific part of the architecture!
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https://github.com/ridhampokiya2110
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ridham-pokiya-b7974a249
https://ridhampokiya.netlify.app/
