The project's biggest challenge was transforming the existing platform, built many years ago, into a modern, high-performance platform capable of withstanding continuous development and integration processes and ever-increasing traffic in line with its constant growth. 

We have developed a new and more modern responsive layout, with a series of advanced features integrated, such as recurring donation, matching of companies and sponsorship networks, special networks, etc.

The server infrastructure has been completely redesigned: a monolithic architecture transformed into a highly reliable cloud server infrastructure. A Kibana-based monitoring system with an automatic alarm system in case of emergencies was created.  

The migration of the base code to Python 3 and Django 2 was very important. The performance optimization phase of the platform, which reduced the loading times of the most-visited pages by about 90% and allowed the insertion of multiple cache levels, was critical.

Last but not least, the automatic tests were written.

The activities we were involved with included:

• Implementation of a new responsive front-end
• Optimization and reduction in loading time on the most-visited pages by 90%
• Migration to Python 3
• Migration to Django 2
• Introduction of multiple cache levels
• Implementation of a logging and monitoring system to check system status in real-time
• Migration to a highly reliable cloud server infrastructure
• Development of new features and donation types
• Creation of a working system and priority code to enable operations to be performed asynchronously.