Golden Hearts - Django AWS Performance Optimization

Optimized Django/Postgres app on AWS for charity gaming, improving efficiency 30% and cutting deployment errors 15% via DevOps automation

Golden Hearts Games enlisted TaylorMade Software to troubleshoot and optimize their full-stack charitable gaming application built with Django and Angular, hosted on AWS.

We resolved major PostgreSQL RDS performance issues using pgAdmin, pgAnalyze, NewRelic, and Dynatrace—achieving a 40% improvement in query execution time and 30% overall performance gain.

For DevOps, we automated the entire stack deployment using Former2, CloudFormation, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline, running on ECS Fargate with Docker containers. This cut deployment time by 25% and errors by 15%.

We further reverse-engineered AWS infrastructure using Cloudockit and LucidChart, created architecture documentation, and set up EC2-based macOS VMs to streamline developer onboarding—accelerating workstation setup by 30%.

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