Case Studies
11Sight
Migrating a Live Real-Time Communications Platform from AWS to Google Cloud
Sakura Sky migrated 11Sight's real-time voice and video platform from AWS to Google Cloud using a compute-first hybrid strategy, with under five minutes of …
- Under 5 minutes of user-facing downtime at cutover
- Zero data loss across the database migration
- 100% of infrastructure defined in Terraform
- Permanent staging environment for future releases
Orbx
Immersive Simulation on Google Cloud
Orbx unified its fractured multi-cloud environment into a 100% cloud-native architecture, achieving a 400% increase in release velocity.
- 400% increase in release velocity
- 30% reduction in cloud expenditure
- 99.99% uptime for live services
- 10x improvement in update precision
Xapo Bank
Innovation at Speed: How Xapo Bank Achieved 85% GenAI Adoption
Xapo Bank hit 85% GenAI adoption in 8 weeks by turning to Google Gemini and frictionless governance.
- 85% adoption rate
- 8-week rollout
- Defense-in-depth architecture
SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG)
Standardising Enterprise Scale: A Global API Governance Framework for SSG
Sakura Sky architected a comprehensive API governance framework for SSG to achieve business agility, technical consistency, and industry-leading security.
- Full lifecycle management across 4 strategic stages
- Standardised RESTful design patterns for all endpoints
- Robust security via OWASP compliance mandates
- Metrics-driven maturity model using industry benchmarks
National Rugby League (NRL)
Enabling Player Data for the National Rugby League
Sakura Sky built a Google Cloud data platform for the National Rugby League that brings player statistics, data, and dashboards together for the league and for …
- Production data pipeline for player statistics on Google Cloud
- Player data from 2013 onwards in the same platform
- Dashboards for the league and for each club
Cobalt
Helping Cobalt Move from Heroku to Kubernetes on Google Cloud
Sakura Sky and Google ran a three-day workshop series with Cobalt's engineers in Berlin to help Cobalt move its platform from Heroku to Kubernetes on Google …
- Three-day architecture workshop series with Cobalt and Google
- Approach for moving PostgreSQL and Redis off Heroku
- Secrets management with Cloud KMS and HashiCorp Vault
- Private GKE clusters, Cloud Build, and access control with Terraform
San Francisco Giants
Starting the San Francisco Giants' Move to Google Cloud
Sakura Sky ran an eight-day Accelerate programme with the San Francisco Giants to start moving their baseball data system, built in the early 2000s, to Google …
- Working prototype pipeline on Google Cloud, using Statcast data
- Reference architecture for the club's data on Google Cloud
- Product roadmap and initial backlog agreed with the club
- Data sources ranked for migration, with Trackman first
Craveable Brands
Scaling Data Engineering: A Google Cloud Platform Case Study for Craveable Brands
Sakura Sky designed and built the Google Cloud Platform data engineering platform for Craveable Brands, unifying operations across 570+ quick-service …
- Reduced data costs by 75%
- Queries running twice as fast as the previous cloud environment
- Unified operational data across 570+ outlets and three brands
- Real-time business intelligence on a centralised BigQuery warehouse
Carousell
Migrating Carousell from DigitalOcean to Google Cloud
Sakura Sky designed and planned Carousell's move from DigitalOcean to Google Cloud in 2016, to make the platform more robust and reliable. The move went live on …
- Live on Google Cloud on time and on budget
- Cloud savings and increased uptime
- Target architecture on Google Cloud
- Phased plan from discovery to retiring the old platform
- A migration method for each data store, with VPN replication tested in a proof of concept