customer story: property partner
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The Stock Exchange For Residential Property
www.propertypartner.co
UK Residential: Long term outperformance
Risk reward by asset
class
Sources: Property Partner residential market index, FTSE all share index, Bank of England, World Gold council
The Problem
All Or Nothing
Unexpected Costs
Admin & Legal
Illiquid
Our Solution
183Properties available
£ 28,643,402 Total invested
£285,817Dividends paid to date
£ 5,627,989 Shares sold on resale
REVIEW PROPERTIES MAKE AN INVESTMENT RECEIVE RENTAL INCOME EXIT YOUR INVESTMENT
The Investor’s Interface
Active Resale Market
7
What’s behind it?
We tried hard to avoid this ! But we’re not quite a perfect clockwork yet
From start to MVP in 6 months
We launched Property Partner on a production-grade, highly available, monitored environment within 6 months
What we did
Responsive Frontend – HTML5, CSS, Angular
Backend – Scala, Play & Akka
Lightweight Admin
Process & Build Pipeline
Pre-Launch Site & Blog
How we did it
Engineering Approach from the start:
• Strong Tech Team: 2 FE, 2BE + Contract Tester
• Process from day 1• Attention to detail• We used AWS, a lot!• No Ops (almost)
We worked really!!!!! hard
Why AWS?
Cloud Formation - Didn’t need a network engineer
RDS MySQL - No need to install DB, easy to maintain
Elastic Beanstalk - Scalable, fault tolerant environment
S3 - Simple store for images and assets
CloudFront - Serves them all through a CDN
CloudWatch - Monitoring
Our Launch Stack, Dec 2014
• Simple 3 Tier Architecture
• Use as much AWS as
possible
• Require as little Ops as
possible
• It works, and it scales!
What did our engineers do next?
Micro(ish) Services – AWS Elastic Container Service
Ad-hoc functionality– AWS Lambda
NASQL (Not Always SQL)
A CDN to front it all - CloudFront
More control of our API – API Gateway
Conclusion
Keep tech simple at the early stages
You’re likely NOT in the business of setting up
servers and environments
Focus on delivering customer value and growing
your business instead