Insider
Overview
Insider shows the infrastructure layer of connected growth: the systems customers rarely see but every product team depends on. Enterprise product velocity is constrained when deployment, identity, observability and regional operations evolve independently. The work centered on creating a more coherent platform foundation through Kubernetes and AWS EKS, with security and operational visibility considered from the beginning. Rather than treating migration as a one-time technical event, the approach connected platform architecture to the needs of teams shipping and operating a live enterprise product across regions and tenants.
Client:
Insider
Year:
2019
Category:
Enterprise Cloud
/
Kubernetes
Location:
Istanbul, TR
The Challenge
Migrating a live enterprise platform is closer to open-heart surgery than a conventional infrastructure upgrade. Existing workloads had to keep serving customers while new cluster patterns, identity boundaries and operational practices were introduced. The environment carried enterprise security expectations, distributed regional complexity and multi-tenant requirements that made shortcuts expensive. Teams also needed visibility into what was happening during and after each migration stage, because reliability problems hidden inside the platform quickly become product problems. The central challenge was to improve the foundation without slowing the organization that depended on it or introducing avoidable risk into live operations.
Live workloads during migration
Enterprise security expectations
Distributed systems across regions
Auth architecture for thousands of tenants
The Solution
We used a staged EKS migration strategy designed around controlled change. Cluster foundations, cloud identity, security boundaries and observability were treated as one architecture rather than separate follow-up projects. Migration steps were structured to make behavior visible, reduce blast radius and allow teams to learn before expanding the pattern across more workloads. Platform decisions were evaluated against both operational requirements and developer experience, because infrastructure only creates leverage when product teams can use it confidently. This connected approach helped security, reliability and delivery velocity reinforce one another instead of becoming competing priorities.
