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Asia Pacific
ZESTMONEY BANKS ON NEW RELIC TO DELIVER FAST RELIABLE AND AFFORDABLE EMI
SERVICES ACROSS INDIA


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India has a population of nearly 1.4 billion people, yet only 30-40 million
individuals hold credit cards. One reason is the large cross-section of the
population with low income and poor or non-existent credit histories, which
makes it difficult for them to qualify for credit through traditional channels.
ZestMoney is on a quest to change this by helping more people get credit to
participate in the consumer economy, and ultimately grow the digital footprint
in India.

An innovative FinTech, ZestMoney built a platform that integrates mobile
technology, digital banking, and artificial intelligence, enabling people to
apply for and get a decision on credit within minutes. ZestMoney is catching on
quickly across India: to date, about 6 million customers are using their
ZestMoney credit to pay for merchandise, travel, education, healthcare, and much
more. The target is to grow the number of customers five times within the next
year, as well as expand merchant partnerships from 3,000 today to more than
8,000.

The challenge is how to achieve this scale while delivering on performance and
customer experience expectations.


ACCELERATING SERVICE DELIVERY WITH AWS CONTAINERS

ZestMoney needed an elastic, cost-effective infrastructure to meet its
scalability, DevOps, and service delivery goals. That’s why the company chose
Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its cloud platform. ZestMoney uses Amazon Elastic
Cloud Compute (EC2) for hosting a few core services, and Amazon Elastic
Container Service (ECS) for most of its containerized services, including its
decision engine.

In addition, ZestMoney uses Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for its
database, AWS CodeDeploy for all deployments, Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the
logs, and AWS CloudTrail to monitor events. The company also relies on Amazon
Route 53 domain name server, Amazon CloudFront content delivery, Amazon Simple
Queue Service (SQS) messaging, and Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). 

The company chose to deploy Docker containers on AWS for optimal scalability,
stability, and performance for critical operations such as the ZestMoney
decision engine, and for returning pre-approval notices and repayment schedules
to customers within minutes of making their applications. 

Ganesh Muralidhar, director of DevOps at ZestMoney, says, “In the past, it took
two or three minutes for a new server to come up with all services running on
just EC2. Post-migration to containers, it now takes only a few seconds for
services to launch or scale up.”

Amazon ECS also helps ZestMoney improve the availability of services. “If a
container goes down, ECS automatically brings up a new one and the service stays
healthy,” Ganesh notes. “We were running at around 97.5% to 98% uptime last
year. This year we are 99.86%.”

> “Any level of slowness in our systems can drive away customers. Our
> responsibility is to make sure our systems are error-free and performing their
> best to deliver a quality customer experience. That’s what New Relic enables
> us to do.”
> 
> Ganesh Muralidhar Director of DevSecOps, ZestMoney


GAINING END-TO-END OBSERVABILITY   

On AWS ECS, ZestMoney currently runs more than 80 microservices, each with a
specific rule for processing customer applications and ultimately determining
whether an applicant is eligible for credit. Additional business cases include
disbursements and processing of repayments. It’s critical that this end-to-end
process is error-free and performing optimally.

“Customers hate a poorly performing experience,” says Ganesh. “They may drop off
and not bother completing the application.”

For this reason, ZestMoney relies heavily on New Relic to instrument and monitor
the full breadth of its cloud, container, and application environment. According
to Ganesh, “New Relic provides extensive information in terms of stack trace and
error analysis, which is easy to consume and share with multiple teams. This
flexibility and the depth of information New Relic provides were the main
reasons we opted for New Relic.”

With so many services supporting its business, ZestMoney takes advantage of New
Relic infrastructure monitoring to monitor things like CPU utilization for each
service across the entire infrastructure—all through a single interface. 

Ganesh points out, “With New Relic, you don’t have to click on every server to
check its utilization. This reduces the amount of time our engineers spend
looking up CPU levels and other server-level statistics. Adding to this, setting
up alerts for infrastructure-level anomalies is also pretty easy. We have
autoscaling on AWS but want a heads up if that’s getting triggered so we can
look into why utilization is so high.”


MONITORING SERVICE PERFORMANCE

ZestMoney relies on New Relic to help meet performance objectives for its
applications and operating environment. For instance, one merchant partner
required processing performance of at least 50 transactions per second (TPS) at
any given time for consumers paying with their ZestMoney account. By using New
Relic during initial performance testing, Ganesh and his team identified several
hot spots within the ecosystem that could be improved to achieve higher TPS with
optimal performance.

“New Relic helped us understand the bottlenecks and identify what needed to be
fixed,” Ganesh says. “After resolving the issues, we showed that our services
could scale up to 65 TPS for the e-commerce merchant.” 

ZestMoney uses New Relic Synthetics for ongoing monitoring of service
performance and health to proactively identify issues before they affect
customers. “We use New Relic Synthetics across different domains, geographic
locations, and endpoints to perform health checks,” Ganesh explains. “If there’s
any kind of failure at a specific location, we get an alert even before the
customer reports a problem.”

> “New Relic helped us understand the bottlenecks and identify what needed to be
> fixed. After resolving the issues, we showed that our services could scale up
> to 65 TPS for a leading e-commerce partner.”
> 
> Ganesh Muralidhar Director of DevSecOps, ZestMoney


SHARING DATA ACROSS THE COMPANY

Another advantage that Ganesh sees from using New Relic is the ability to build
individual dashboards for different teams across the company. This empowers each
team with observability into the infrastructure and application data that’s
specifically relevant to them. For example: 

 * The business team can observe the overall health of services to ensure a
   positive customer experience.

 * The company’s DevOps team relies on New Relic to ensure applications in
   development perform properly and aren’t degraded by inefficiencies such as
   issuing unnecessary database calls or calls to other external services.

 * The data science team gains visibility into the DevOps process so they can
   determine with the developers where to embed queries in the application that
   return valuable data for analytics and business intelligence.


ASSURING SERVICE HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE TO SUPPORT ONGOING BUSINESS GROWTH

As ZestMoney continues to evolve and refine its infrastructure to drive new
innovation and further elevate the customer experience, the company is looking
to move from ECS to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). New Relic can help
the ZestMoney team gain visibility into the new EKS environment.  

Ganesh says, “We will look to New Relic Kubernetes Cluster Explorer to give us a
clear view of how many pods are running, how the cluster is behaving, and the
stability of the system. Most important, it will provide detailed stats at the
host level so we can see metrics for a specific pod on a particular host. This
will immediately tell us if the service levels have any problems, so we can
address them.”

Ultimately, Ganesh measures the success of his organization by how well he can
deliver system uptime and performance at scale. “I want our systems to be up and
running without any anomalies, no services failing,” he says. “During the most
recent sale season, our systems handled up to 280 TPS and remained super stable.
I want to increase that to 500 TPS with 100% uptime. For me, that is success.”

Ganesh sees New Relic playing a central role in helping him achieve his goals:
“I need information on not just the number of services down, not just the error
rate or resource-level utilization, but also if just one service is breaking, I
want to know the details of why and the impact level in case of any cascading
effect. New Relic has already solved this. With the distributed tracing feature,
we can look at the complete path of the service, understand where the hotspot
is, and why this particular service is taking longer, so we can promptly resolve
the issue.”

He concludes, “Any level of slowness in our systems can drive away customers.
Our responsibility is to make sure our systems are error-free and performing
their best to deliver a quality customer experience. That’s what New Relic
enables us to do.”


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