Poolside

Love where you work, find your dream team – Providing restaurants with the opportunity to connect with candidates that are excited to go to work

Poolside is a Chicago startup that allows restaurants to post jobs and make connections with specific people who not only fit their needs, but identify with their specific style.

Teravision Technologies was tasked with assisting Poolside with a backend software architecture reconstruction. The new architecture was also to be the foundation to build new features for Poolside’s mobile application.

Technologies used: Arango DB, Golang.js, NATS, React.js

Engagement Model:

Dedicated Software Development Team – Flexible Scope

The Team:

Poolside came to Teravision with a defined set of requirements to add the final features needed to complete their Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Teravision evaluated these requirements and built a detailed roadmap, and both teams started working together using Agile/Scrum methodology in two-week sprints.

After reviewing and approving Teravision’s roadmap, the following team was assigned to carry out the project:

Project Management
Scrum Master
QA
1 QA Tech Leader
· 1 QA Analyst
DevOps
1 DevOps Engineer

To start, Teravision’s team performed regression testing in order to have a full understanding of the application from a structural and functional perspective. This allowed the team to learn about the application and also assess whether or not there were any undetected bugs.
From an infrastructure (DevOps) perspective, the Teravision and Poolside teams worked together in order to refactor the way the product was originally built. After further consideration, the decision was made to build new infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Highlights

Despite the challenges, a defining moment in the project was when all of the backend services could be mapped and the deploy process (software deployment), that was running semi-automatically, was rebuilt.
Poolside decided to partner with Teravision, and 48 hours later Teravision ramped up the team using their bench capabilities.
Under this scheme, the first three features were able to be sent to production in a period of 4 weeks. Then, the team was able to deliver new features on a two-week Sprint basis.
After working with Teravision, Poolside decided to change its software architecture with its DevOps engineers and develop new features with a more standardized architecture.