Flextech leverages Google Cloud to automate application development.

Application development in the cloud

Flextech selected Rackspace Technology™ because of its strong GCP expertise and customizable service consumption model, called Service Blocks. The partnership allows Flextech to use only the cloud services it needs today. In this way, Flextech can build its own managed services, including containers, managed public cloud and professional services. With the growth of its Flex Rewards user base, the company anticipates that it will see an increase in its GCP consumption and use of more advanced features.

“The Service Blocks model offers us the ability to start with service support that matches our current needs. This helps us with containerized workloads during app development, facilitating the configuration and automation we need,” said Chris Tong, COO Flextech. “As we grow, we can easily adopt different managed services support to match our new requirements.”

Instead of having the development team spend hours poring over technical materials online to learn about GCP features, expertise from the Rackspace Technology team enables Flextech team members to focus on improving the Flex Rewards app experience and reduce potential business impact-related system downtime. “Our development team benefits tremendously from Rackspace Technology’s GCP expertise, especially with Kubernetes. The Rackspace Technology portal is also highly intuitive for ticketing, and any query we may have is addressed promptly,” said Tong. He added, “As our relationship with Rackspace Technology deepens, we are coming to appreciating its help not only with tech issues, but also with business and marketing in general. Its customer success team asks many great questions that help us think through our challenges and push us to find the right solutions together. This gives us confidence that Flex Rewards will be a significant player in Singapore’s mobile marketing technology.”