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Published on : 10.03.2023 Modified on : 27.01.2025

Servers Outage? Don’t Worry, Google Cloud Has Your Back


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This Fintech start-up delivers tools for financial innovation for businesses. They developed a data aggregator platform dedicated to facilitating their end goal of open banking. In just 3 years, they became the leader in financial data connectivity and enrichment.

Source: flinks.com

Handling Unpredictable Traffic Spikes

Flinks wanted to maintain infrastructure reliability, robustness, scalability and flexibility to quickly deal with traffic fluctuations. For example, in 2021, with r/WallStreetBets and the meme stock emergence, a huge number of small investors provoked a traffic surge on online brokerage sites (+35% overall, up to 600% in 24h for one of Flinks’ client).

Automated Scalability with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Thanks to Google Kubernetes Engine, it is very easy to upgrade to the next level of infrastructure to absorb the additional traffic. Scaling decisions are made based on business rules without human intervention. In this exceptional and unexpected case for traffic peaks, the manual intervention to approve the scale-up of the infrastructure took only a few seconds.

Seamless Performance During Extreme Traffic Events

Flinks’ customers were pleased that Flinks continued to operate normally despite the massive influx of traffic. The number of nodes in the GKE Clusters tripled in a few seconds. While ensuring the stability, efficiency and the robustness of the infrastructures, the return on investment is maintained as the costs are based on the real traffic and the margins are linear.

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Flinks was looking for the best partner to manage infrastructure, security and capacity scaling, most efficiently and as quickly as possible with the least effort and the least cost possible. They found all these with Google Cloud and SE Cloud Experts as a partner.

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