Platform Engineering at Scale: Building Cloud-Native Data Infrastructure for 140TB Monthly Healthcare Analytics
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From 12-hour queries to 2.4 hours. From 15TB to 140TB monthly. $2.3M saved. See how platform engineering transformed a Fortune 500’s healthcare data chaos into a self-service powerhouse that accelerated drug discovery by 4.2 months per compound. Real metrics, real impact.
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Hello everyone.
I'm Kumar and I'm excited to share my insights gain from two decades of hands-on
experience in technology and engineering.
Throughout my 20 year journey, I've had the privilege of working on diverse transf
transformation projects that has shaped my understanding of platform engineering.
At scale.
Today, I will share one of our most impactful implementations.
Healthcare analytics and that is platform engineering.
At scale building cloud native data infrastructure for one
40 terabyte of data monthly.
Healthcare analytics.
Healthcare organizations
face unique data engineering challenges.
Managing hundreds of terabytes of sensitive data monthly while maintaining
HIPAA and GDPR compliance create significant complexity combined with
legacy system constraints, demands for self-service analytics, and the need
to integrate diverse data domains.
These challenges directly impact medical innovation and patient care.
Modern platform engineering solutions have become essential to
address these critical barriers.
As a Fortune 500 biopharma company, legacy infrastructure, severely constrained
research capabilities, the platform access only 15% of available healthcare
data sources with the researchers facing two hour query rate times.
The monolithic system couldn't scale to meet growing data demands effectively
limiting innovation and delay potential medical break breakthroughs.
Our platform engineering transformation, increased month monthly processing
capacity from 15 terabyte to one 40 terabyte reducing processing
time by 80% and accelerating drug discovery timelines by 4.2 months per.
We developed a platform as a product approach, treating infrastructure
as a product with research and clinical teams as customers.
By implementing self-service capabilities and automation, we achieved 67%
faster development velocity and reduced processing time by 80%.
The platform integrated compliance.
Requirement directly into infrastructure code while enabling team to access
resource without engineering bottlenecks.
This transformation delivered $2.3 million in annual cost savings and increased
workload capacity, demonstrating the value of treating platforms as products
rather than just infrastructure.
Our healthcare data platform leverages a W Services to process our one 40
terabyte of monthly data efficiently.
Through automated e retail pipelines, multi-zone data architecture, and
dynamic scaling capabilities, we achieved an 80% reduction in processing
time, the platforms metadata driven framework, and choose data quality
while maintaining HIPAA compliance.
Through built-in security controls, this architecture uses S3 Amazon
Redshift to store to access the data and Amazon S3 to store the data.
There is also addition layer in between, which is nothing but the
copy command you can use to load data directly into the Amazon Redshift.
Our INFRAS infrastructure as code approach integrates compliance
and automation directly into our development deployment pipelines.
Through automated infrastructure provisioning and self-service capabilities
we have achieved faster developer velocity and seamless scaling from 15 terabyte
to one 40 terabyte monthly capacity.
Platform's compliance as code approach and embeds regulatory requirements
infrastructure, while automated scaling and optimization have delivered
major cost, annual cost savings.
This transformation reduce deployment times while maintaining consistent
security controls across environments.
Our platform engineering initiatives delivered significant
outcomes across key metrics.
We achieved an 80% reduction in processing time through automation,
increased workload capacity by three 40%, and realized $2.3
million in annual cost savings.
Developer velocity improved by 67% through self service capabilities.
Monthly processing capacity scaled from 15 terabyte to one 40 terabyte.
These results demonstrate the substantial impact of our platform transformation.
Our platform transformation delivered significant
healthcare innovation outcomes.
Drug discovery timelines accelerated by 4.2 months per compound per month.
Through faster data processing, clinical research accuracy improved by 45 40
5% through enhanced data integration.
While clinical trial success rate increased by 23% through improved
data accessibility, these results demonstrate tangible impact on healthcare
innovation and research efficiency.
And our platform engineering approach creates infrastructure as a code with
research and clinical team as customers.
The mindset shift transformed our delivery model and team interaction,
enabling healthcare teams to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure.
Our legacy to cloud near transformation followed five key phases.
Assessment, evaluated capabilities and defined target architecture,
foundation, established cloud, environment and compliance frameworks.
Migration.
Executed workload transition using blue, green, deployments,
optimization, refined architecture, and enhanced cell service capabilities.
Innovation, expanded platform capabilities with advanced
analytics and ML integration.
This phased approach enables seamless transformation.
While maintaining operational continuity,
we face key challenges, including organizational resistance,
skill gaps, legacy integration requirements, compliance concerns.
Balancing standard ideation with flexibility solutions included executive
champions driving cultural change, embedded platform engineers phased
migration with clear metrics, compliance as code implementation and golden parts
with escape patches for edge cases.
This comprehensive approach address both technical and organizational challenges.
The implementation focused on four practical strategies.
Start small and scale fast with defined high value use cases.
Embed compliance into platform automation and CICD pipelines.
Measure platform value through clear KPIs, including developer velocity
and resource utilization, and build internal community through feedback
forums and train training programs.
These approaches grow successful platform adoption and continuously
success in healthcare.
Platform engineering requires four key elements, product, mindset,
self-service, acceleration, automated compliance, and meaningful metrics.
Tracking these principles enable our platform to deliver 80% faster
processing and accelerated healthcare innovation through improved.
Clinical research accuracy and drug discovery timelines.