Conventional Platform → Google Cloud

Healthcare Technology Co. Scales with GCP

Industry: Healthcare Technology / Real-World Evidence
Service: Cloud Migration to GCP|Microservices Decomposition|Kubernetes Cluster Operation|UX & Front-End Modernization

Overview

Headquartered in the UK, this healthcare technology company provides a growth-engine tracking platform that seamlessly collects and transforms clinical notes into real-world evidence for research purposes. Spanning individual practitioners up to large multinational organizations, the company enables healthcare providers to build, scale, and manage their own personalizations by incorporating social messaging and outcome-driven analytics into daily business activities.

What Was Holding the Platform Back

Outgrown Initial Implementation

Built on a conventional Ruby on Rails app, the platform had outgrown its original architecture — adding new features and improving the UX had become implausible without a rethink.

UX & System Responsiveness

A traditional server-rendered model couldn’t deliver the responsive UX the customer base now expected — a single-page application and clean separation between front and back ends were needed.

Single Bare-Metal Server

The application ran on a single bare-metal server, so scaling, deployment flexibility, and fault tolerance were all constrained by the box.

How We Solved It

To resolve the challenges with the Ruby on Rails-based platform, Sphere migrated the platform to Google Cloud Platform — and divided the migration into two phases that could be delivered without disrupting the production app.

1. Decompose into Services by Business Logic
Phase 1 separated the monolith into several services defined by business logic and responsibilities. Each service became independently deployable and scalable, with clean ownership boundaries.
2. Single Kubernetes Cluster on GCP
Phase 2 transitioned all services into a single Kubernetes cluster under GCP infrastructure. Containerization and routine splitting let the team identify areas that can be scaled independently and improved separately, without affecting the main app and business logic.
3. SPA Front-End for a Modern UX
A single-page application separated UI from backend, delivering the responsive UX the platform had outgrown — and laying the foundation for unlimited per-customer personalizations.

Key Outcomes

Unlimited UX Personalizations

GCP and the new architecture let the company achieve unlimited personalizations to the UX, satisfying its expanding customer base.

Seamless Scaling

GCP scales seamlessly, responsive to improvements, new features, and functionality — no more bare-metal ceiling.

Faster Time to Market

A simple Kubernetes-driven flow lets the company spin up environments in very short time — reducing development time and overall time to market.

Lower Run Cost

Best-practice GCP infrastructure helped the business save on costs while improving reliability and developer velocity.

The Results

With the new GCP platform implemented, the healthcare technology company can now achieve unlimited personalizations to the UX to satisfy its customer base. GCP scales seamlessly, responsive to improvements, new features, and new functionality. The Kubernetes cluster Sphere implemented for this project includes a simple flow that lets the company spin up an environment in very short time — reducing time to market, cutting development time, and helping the business save on costs by applying best practices and the GCP infrastructure.

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Lee Ebreo

VP of Engineering at Credit Ninja

These things would not have been achievable if we did not build our own in-house system and if we did not partner with Sphere to help us achieve our goals.

Selah Ben-Haim

VP of Engineering at Prominence Advisors

Our experience with Sphere and their team has been and continues to be fantastic. We keep throwing new projects at them, and they keep knocking them out of the park (including the rescue of a project that was previously bungled by another vendor).

Ben Crawford

Senior Product Manager at Enova Financial

I would expect to be delighted. It's been a really positive experience, working with Sphere, and I would expect you to have the same.

Mark Friedgan

CEO at CreditNinja

Sphere consistently prioritizes the needs of their clients, demonstrating both agility and teamwork. As an offshore team, they have been an integral part of our organization and we plan to continue growing with them.

René Pfitzner

Co-Founder at Experify

Sphere provided excellent full-stack development manpower to augment our team and help push our product forward. They are easy to work with, tech-savvy and proactive.

Bruce Burdick

Chief Information Officer at Integra Credit

We've been working with Sphere and its excellent consultants since our founding. I've found that they are true partners in the success of our business.

Jemal Swoboda

CEO at Dabble

The resources and developers that Sphere Software provides are skilled and have the required technical expertise, but more importantly, they have helped us build a culture of excellence within our team.

Arthur Tretyak

Founder and CEO at IntegraCredit

With Sphere, we were able to migrate in half the time it would take to train an additional FTE… and for a fraction of the cost. Our experience with Sphere has been exceptional.

Lee Ebreo

VP of Engineering at Credit Ninja

These things would not have been achievable if we did not build our own in-house system and if we did not partner with Sphere to help us achieve our goals.

Selah Ben-Haim

VP of Engineering at Prominence Advisors