Newton: An ultimate all-inclusive email management solution

Newton is a new-age email client application that works seamlessly across a wide range of platforms like macOS, Android, iOS, and Windows. In addition, the tool offers users many useful features like read receipts, sharing emails with a link, and snooze, to name a few.

• Poor customer acquisition due to obsolete features
• Integration with multiple third-party libraries
• High cloud infrastructure cost 
• The existing infrastructure was complicated and difficult to maintain

• AWS Config empowered feature enhancements, boosting engagement and monitoring.
• Leveraging Amazon OpenSearch, we upgraded search, boosting user acquisition with faster, precise email and data retrieval.
• Facilitated smooth shift from physical servers to Kubernetes.
• Orchestrated migration with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
• Unified codebase for perpetual code maintenance simplicity.
• Strategically integrated DynamoDB for precise cost optimization.
• Utilized DynamoDB’s serverless capabilities and dynamic load balancing.
• Employed auto-scaling groups to gracefully respond to demand shifts.
• DynamoDB’s managed database services and serverless logic employed.
• We harnessed AWS Config for resource optimization, enhancing cost efficiency.

• Realized a 30% reduction in email response time, enhancing overall communication efficiency by leveraging Amazon DynamoDB’s streamlined data processing.
• Reduced the cost of the existing infrastructure to 14 cents/ indexing user/month
• Through the infrastructure we designed, Newton syncs 13 million emails daily.
• Capitalized on Amazon DynamoDB’s managed database services and serverless logic to achieve a 25% reduction in operational costs, while ensuring high-performance data storage and processing.
• Enhanced data retrieval speed by 25%
• Achieved a 20% increase in user engagement due to faster and more accurate search results.

• Load balancers: Load balancers ensure even distribution of requests between EC2 instances for optimal performance.
• Amazon OpenSearch: Amazon OpenSearch efficiently manages and retrieves email and data content, providing advanced search capabilities to users, ensuring precise and speedy results.
• Job distribution: SQS/ Gearman: Amazon SQS and Gearman handle queuing and job distribution for service requests.
• DynamoDB: DynamoDB stores metadata for emails, templates, and enables link tracking and read receipts in Newton.
• Amazon S3 and RDS: Amazon S3 stores templates and attachments, enhancing user experience and enabling public email sharing.
• SQLite storage with thrift interface: SQLite storage with a thrift interface stores email metadata for quick retrieval up to 60 days.
• Worker Nodes: Worker nodes, powered by EKS, manage various functions like crawling, action, notification, web services, and infrastructure management.
• AWS Config: Utilized AWS Config to continuously monitor and maintain configuration compliance for Newton’s AWS services.