Case studyMonetrack

4 million links a day, scaled securely.

How Monetrack, a leading affiliate network in Japan, gained the confidence to scale its operation securely on AWS while cutting cost by 32%.

Industry
AdTech, affiliate marketing
We built
A new, secure environment
Runs on
AWS

4M+

Affiliate links a day

Processed securely

32%

Lower cost

After the move

9 months

Return on investment

Payback

The challenge

A platform that couldn’t scale safely.

Monetrack needed to securely scale an operation processing more than 4 million affiliate links a day. Its legacy architecture was more complicated than it needed to be, couldn’t scale effectively and didn’t match its own online security guidelines.

What we built

A phased move to a new environment.

Assembly proposed a phased approach that fit the Monetrack team’s schedule, testing everything in a sandbox before moving production.

How we did it

A sandbox to test in

An integration environment with robust Amazon VPC network segmentation, so tests never touch production.

Production data, replicated

The full production dataset copied into the sandbox for realistic performance tests.

Measured first

Performance tests set the metrics the new environment had to meet.

Minimal-downtime migration

A migration plan moved every resource to the new environment with minimal downtime.

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Toolchain

Built with

A Ruby on Rails and Python platform, with CircleCI and GitHub for delivery, Papertrail for logs and Spot for instance optimisation.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Python
  • CircleCI
  • Papertrail

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Tested in a sandbox, moved with confidence.

  • Segmented network. A robust Amazon VPC design keeps the sandbox apart from production.
  • Real data, safely. The production dataset was replicated into the sandbox for performance tests.
  • Planned cutover. Resources moved to the new environment with minimal downtime.
  • Ready to grow. Advertisers rely on the platform to track ads and expenses and to process payments.
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High-level architecture

Monetrack on AWS

How Monetrack moved to its new AWS environmentHigh-level view of Monetrack on AWS. Advertisers use the affiliate platform in its new production environment. A separate integration sandbox, in its own Amazon VPC, holds a replica of the production data for performance tests, which set the metrics for a migration with minimal downtime.AWS CLOUD · MONETRACKPRODUCTION VPCSANDBOX VPCTracking and paymentsReplicated production dataMetrics for the moveAdvertisersAds, expenses, paymentsAffiliate platformProduction · new environmentIntegration sandboxPerformance tests
Simplified view. Arrows follow one advertiser request, then the copy of production data and the metrics it returns.

Key results

Scale with confidence, at lower cost.

Cost

32%

Lower cost

A simpler architecture costs less to run, with payback in nine months.

Delivery

15%

Faster deployments

Standardised environments and faster DevOps shorten each release.

Security

Segmented

Network by design

A VPC design in line with Monetrack’s security guidelines, and less risk in every release.

Our certified expertise

AWS Partner, Advanced Tier ServicesAWS Partner, Well-Architected Partner Program
AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – ProfessionalAWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – AssociateAWS Certified Solutions Architect – ProfessionalAWS Certified AI Practitioner

AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and Well-Architected Partner Program. All 12 current AWS Certifications are held by our team.

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