Manual Provisioning
Teams still had to provision and manage servers for simple workloads, increasing cost and effort.
Delivering Faster with Serverless & Automated Ops
Modern digital businesses are looking for ways to build and scale applications without managing servers, infrastructure provisioning, or runtime maintenance. A high-growth fintech startup partnered with Spundan to adopt Serverless DevOps practices — combining serverless architecture with automated CI/CD and cloud-native monitoring — to deliver new features faster, securely, and with minimal operational overhead.
The client runs a payments processing and fraud detection platform handling thousands of transactions per minute. To compete with larger players, they needed to innovate rapidly but wanted to avoid the burden of managing infrastructure and scaling challenges.
Before adopting a Serverless DevOps model, the company faced these bottlenecks:
Manual Provisioning
Teams still had to provision and manage servers for simple workloads, increasing cost and effort.
Slow Feature Rollouts
Deploying backend updates required coordinating with operations, delaying releases.
Scaling Bottlenecks
Sudden traffic spikes caused performance issues due to fixed-capacity servers.
Monitoring Gaps
Observability for serverless workloads was limited, making troubleshooting harder.
Spundan’s cloud-native DevOps experts designed a Serverless DevOps framework using best-in-class serverless services and automation tools — aligned with the client's AWS environment.
Key solution components:Serverless Architecture
Migrated workloads to AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB for auto-scaling, pay-as-you-go execution.
Serverless CI/CD Pipelines
Built automated pipelines with AWS CodePipeline and Serverless Framework to deploy Lambda functions, APIs, and infrastructure as code (IaC) in a single flow.
Event-Driven Design
Integrated event triggers (SQS, SNS) for asynchronous processing and scaling.
Observability & Monitoring
Deployed tools like AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray, and custom dashboards to monitor Lambda execution, performance, and costs in real time.
Cost Controls & Security
Implemented automated policies for function timeouts, IAM roles, and resource quotas to prevent cost overruns and ensure compliance.
Developer Enablement
Created reusable templates and documentation, allowing developers to spin up new serverless services quickly and consistently.
The Serverless DevOps transformation was delivered in three phases over four months:
Architecture & Planning
Analyzed existing workloads, identified migration candidates, and designed the serverless blueprint.
Pilot Services
Migrated non-critical services (e.g., reporting, background jobs) to serverless to validate autoscaling and deployment automation.
Full Rollout
Expanded the serverless DevOps model to handle core transaction workflows, with continuous monitoring and performance tuning.
"Spundan's Serverless DevOps approach gave our startup big-company scalability — without the big-company overhead. We roll out features faster and scale instantly when traffic spikes.”
— CTO, Fintech Client
60% faster feature rollouts, reducing time from dev to production from weeks to days.
Zero downtime scaling, handling high transaction volumes seamlessly with AWS Lambda autoscaling.
Lower infrastructure costs, paying only for execution time instead of idle server capacity.
Higher developer productivity, with self-service deployment workflows and no server maintenance.
Start Small
Piloting non-critical workloads first reduced risk and built trust in serverless patterns.
Automation is Key
Automated CI/CD pipelines ensured that serverless updates rolled out smoothly and securely.
Monitor Everything
Real-time observability tools helped catch performance issues early, even in distributed, event-driven systems.
By combining serverless architecture with automated DevOps workflows, this fintech startup transformed how it ships software — achieving faster innovation, simpler operations, and cost-efficient scalability.
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