About the Client A leading South African insurance and financial services provider, the client is a diversified group that offers a wide range of products including commercial, personal, and life insurance. Known for its innovative approach to the market, the company sought to modernise its core technology stack to maintain its competitive edge and improve …
In today’s software landscape, applications are predominantly delivered as services – often termed web apps or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Building these services to be scalable, maintainable, and resilient, especially in cloud environments, presents a unique set of challenges. The 12-Factor App methodology, first articulated by developers at Heroku, provides a robust set of principles for constructing …
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Caching is a fundamental technique in modern system design, promising lightning-fast response times and reduced load on backend services. From client-side browser caches to distributed in-memory stores like Redis, and even down to the database’s own buffer pools, caching layers are ubiquitous. However, while the benefits are clear, a misconfigured or misunderstood cache can quickly …
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Transforming complexity into clarity: How Runninghill’s strategic overhaul of a lead management system propelled one of South Africa’s largest insurance companies from operational chaos to peak performance in production. Challenges: Implementation: Results: Through these strategic interventions, Runninghill not only rescued a faltering project but also laid a strong foundation for ongoing enhancements and growth. The …
We’ve embraced the ethos of ‘Leave code better than you found it,’ undertaking extensive rounds of code refactoring to streamline bulky codebases and elevate good coding practices, ensuring continual enhancement of our source code quality. Empowering teams to conquer challenges and deliver impeccable solutions. Challenges: Implementation: Results: These strategic efforts have transformed the codebase, fostering …
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Our project aimed to propel a large insurance company’s business architecture and technical estate into the future. It featured a host of exciting and cutting-edge technologies; however, the project had suffered several technical and process-oriented setbacks. Challenges: Implementation: Results: These strategic enhancements have not only streamlined operations but also fortified the project’s infrastructure, paving the …