Case study
EKey — license management at scale
Software Engineer · Synergy-IT · 2019–2023
A long-running license-management platform for a national education publisher — users, newsletters, and digital licenses — load-balanced to handle ~20k requests/second.
▸ Handles ~20k requests/second, load-balanced
▸ Powers digital licensing for a national education platform, in production since 2008
Problem
A core licensing system that had served a major education platform since 2008 needed to stay fast and reliable under very high, sustained request volumes.
Approach
WCF services plus four background services and an administration UI, load-balanced and continuously optimised for throughput and reliability.