Equentis: Secure, High-Speed Platform Engineering
We completely re-architected the Next.js caching strategy on Google Cloud CDN and built an automated CI/CD pipeline on Kubernetes, resulting in a 97% reduction in page load times and significant infrastructure cost savings.
Visit Equentis WebsiteThe Challenge: Latency & Cache Inefficiency
Equentis faced significant performance bottlenecks across their digital infrastructure. Complex SSR-heavy pages and high-traffic blog articles were experiencing slow load times, directly impacting user experience and SEO. Furthermore, inefficient caching rules were driving up Google Cloud CDN costs through high cache-fill volumes and unnecessary network egress during peak market hours.
- Blog articles and main pages taking up to 3.36 seconds to load.
- Complex SSR Stock Screener pages taking over 5.2 seconds.
- Inefficient CDN utilization resulting in 226GB+ of monthly egress.
- High origin server load and CPU consumption during peak market hours.
The Solution: Aggressive Edge Caching & Secure CI/CD
We re-architected the delivery pipeline with a focus on maximum cache efficiency, lightning-fast response times, and zero-downtime deployments.
Advanced CDN Caching
Implemented aggressive edge caching for static assets and eligible HTML, with strict separation between browser and CDN cache TTLs (max-age vs s-maxage).
Targeted Invalidation
Configured cache tags to enable precise, deployment-triggered cache invalidation, ensuring users instantly receive fresh content without global cache purges.
DevSecOps Pipelines
Built automated Jenkins pipelines on Kubernetes (GKE) with SonarQube and Snyk security gates, enforcing controlled promotions across Feature, UAT, and Production.
Before vs After: Page Load Performance
Visual proof of the drastic reductions in page load times across critical user journeys.
Blog Article Page
Blog Main Page
Stock Screener (SSR)
CDN Efficiency & Cost Optimization
A leaner, highly optimized cache footprint resulting in direct monthly savings.
Cache Fill (Origin to CDN)
CDN Egress (CDN to User)
Business Impact Summary
User Experience Pages now load in milliseconds instead of seconds, eliminating friction.
Infrastructure Efficiency Drastically reduced origin server CPU, memory usage, and backend network egress.
Scalability The platform is now engineered to handle severe traffic spikes during peak market hours without a proportional cost increase.
Deployment Confidence Automated pipelines and manual approval gates ensure safe, auditable, and zero-downtime releases.
Technology Stack
Platforms and tools used to engineer performance, reliability, and security for Equentis.
Frontend & Delivery
Cloud & DevOps
