LMS Platform Serving 200+ Institutions — Zero Downtime Migration
We needed a partner who could handle a zero-downtime migration of a live platform serving 200+ institutions. Key Brains delivered it flawlessly.
-- Aditya Khanna, CEO, EduCore Systems
The Challenge
EduCore’s legacy LMS was built on a PHP 5.6 codebase running on bare metal servers. With 200+ institutional clients and 2 million student accounts, any migration carried enormous risk. Their largest clients had SLA requirements of 99.9% uptime — and the academic calendar left only narrow maintenance windows.
Our Approach
We spent the first 8 weeks doing nothing but instrumentation, documentation, and risk mapping. Every integration point, every cron job, every undocumented feature was catalogued. We then designed a phased migration with feature flags that let us move tenants one-by-one.
The Solution
We rebuilt the platform on a modern Laravel/Vue.js stack deployed on AWS with RDS Aurora for the database layer. A custom data migration pipeline moved 1M+ records with validation checksums at every step. Blue-green deployment allowed instant rollback at any point during cutover.
The Results
All 200+ institutions were migrated over a 4-month window with zero reported downtime. Page load times improved by an average of 68%. The new platform handled the September enrollment spike — historically their highest traffic event — at 3× previous peak load without a single incident.