Jul 31, 2021
Untoolia strives to rethink and take a fresh look at building software for educational pruposes. It aims to borrow concepts from agile, accelerated software development in order to introduce an alternative to the traditional monolithic, vendor-dependent software.
Small pre-K and private schools have to be mindful of spendings. The focus needs to be on the children and their development rather than trying to cover ever increasing IT cost. The biggest cost factor is paying for resources that are idle. These days, cloud platform providers have serverless offers that allow to pay only for usage instead of charging for idle periods. For examples, a registration service that runs as a RESTful API on a VM can be replaced by a cloud function that only charges when a user consumes that function. To make things even better, cloud providers often have a free tier with generous allocations, e.g. https://aws.amazon.com/free/.
Another plus for serverless is that it removes the task of managing servers. That reduces the operational burden and allocates more time to develop features. Provisioning, patching, network management, etc. become a thing of the past and is offloaded to the cloud provider
In the current pandemic, educational institutions struggle to find the right model to operate under. Web and mobile applications can help with introducing new models to support and innovate these efforts. We are choosing to utilize a services-oriented architecture that will allow us to have quick turnaround for new features and be innovative with a very small development team, of one :-)
There will be two mediums of interfacing with customers:
Our choice is to create a fully serverless platform on top of AWS products. To follow our adventure creating the platform, follow this tag.
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