JobTarget improves online job searches for millions of job seekers with AWS.

The obstacles they faced

Over the past decade, JobTarget has developed multiple products using a single C# code base and a Microsoft SQL database with 800+ tables and over 1,500 stored procedures.

The next logical step to maintain performance and allow for growth was a move to the cloud. But when JobTarget started building on Amazon Web Services (AWS), it was quickly met with complexities that could slow or delay its migration. “AWS brought Rackspace to our attention based on what we needed,” said Mark Oreta, Chief Technology Officer at JobTarget. “They thought Rackspace would be a great fit because of the skill of the team and the different technologies we’d be interacting with. And Rackspace has been a great partner.”

After consulting with the JobTarget team, Rackspace Technology™ identified gaps and opportunities and provided recommendations built on AWS best practices, account strategy, DevOps, pipeline structure, application architecture and database architecture.

What we achieved together

Oreta’s team is now running its migration, IT strategy and operations while maintaining a fruitful relationship with Rackspace Technology. Its infrastructure has greater flexibility, costs have decreased, and the team has easy access to AWS expertise when it needs it. “During all this rapid growth, we were able to conduct both an application modernization initiative and a cloud migration,” said Oreta.

JobTarget now can accommodate its rapid growth, pursue innovation and bring new features and products to market quicker than before. Real-time data processing on an event-driven architecture has created new opportunities to enhance existing data analytics capabilities.

• JobTarget went from monthly code deployments that required downtime to 8-10 daily deployments with zero downtime.

• In addition, JobTarget created two new products using the new flexible architecture and team structure.

• The new architecture allowed JobTarget to grow from four product teams to 15 teams, including a new team dedicated to innovation.

“With the new domain-driven architecture and AWS's serverless architecture, now instead of features taking us six to eight weeks, we can launch them within a week, from start to finish,” said Oreta.

Reporting accelerated from weekly and monthly cycles to near real time data streams. JobTarget’s new architecture design is easier to understand and promotes better alignment between business and development teams. This new event-driven architecture helps mitigate concerns regarding application performance during peak traffic time.

JobTarget’s migration helped to increase its own internal AWS expertise. The company recently launched two new products,  and daily code deployments are helping JobTarget to rapidly adapt to market changes.

“Rackspace has been an amazing partner in that it helps us get the most out of our AWS investment,” said Oreta. “They help us choose the right technologies and, with their expertise, we get it right the first time.”