LinkIt!

Scaling a SAAS educational platform to support 2M users

Year

2025

Industry

Education technology

Scope of work

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Development

Timeline

# years

Impact

Impact

Impact

Serving nearly 2 million active users

Today LinkIt! serves thousands of schools worldwide with nearly a million active students. Devblock continues to develop the LinkIt! platform and has a team dedicated to its success.​

25,000+

Active schools

2,000,000

Active users

Overview

Overview

Overview

Helping K-12 teachers track and improve student performance

LinkIt! is an educational SAAS provider which uses real-time data and analytics to help schools.

Problem

Problem

Problem

Old technology platform lacked support for large-scale growth

Their old platform couldn't handle the growing number of users and diverse data needs. It struggled with large datasets, varied data scenarios, and use cases and needed a scalable infrastructure. DevBlock needed to fix this issue by improving data processing, fine-tuning calculations, adjusting data population methods, and scaling up the infrastructure. These changes were crucial to helping the platform support future growth.

Re-built for seamless integration and large-scale usage

Robust student assessment authoring and delivery

The student assessment authoring and delivery platform had online and offline capabilities and item banking tools.​

Improved performance tracking framework

We created a fully-instrumented performance analytics and error reporting framework​.

Improved dashboard

The new dashboard reporting platform supported multiple reporting segments​.

Technologies

We implemented the LinkIt! platform's main reporting features in .NET Framework and hosted them on the AWS Cloud environment. Here are the technologies we used:

Microsoft Stack

Microsoft .NET

Microsoft SQL Server

MS Reporting

Other

OAuth 2.0

Loadtest with k6.io

AWS - Compute

EC2

Auto Scaling

Elastic Beanstalk

Lambda

AWS - Database

DynamoDB

AWS - Network and Content Delivery

API Gateway

VPC

VPN

ELB

CloudFront

Route53

AWS - Storage

S3

S3 Glacier