Executive Summary
About Client
The client, Yorker, is focused on leveraging technology to address the challenge of tracking and managing cricket bowlers’ net practice bowling loads. Recognizing the risk of overtraining and injuries from improper tracking, therefore, Yorker aims to provide a digital solution tailored for cricket players. In addition, An AWS Custom Application for Yorker empowers bowlers to automate session recordings, create personalized training plans, and monitor progress effectively. The app also fosters a sense of community by enabling interaction, knowledge sharing, and participation in skill-building challenges. The project is being executed in multiple phases, beginning with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to establish a strong foundation for future improvements. Yorker’s commitment to innovation and user-centric design reflects its dedication to transforming how athletes manage their training and optimize performance while minimizing injury risks.
Project Background – Enhancing Cricket Training through Digital Bowling Load Management
The Yorker mobile app project addresses a major challenge for cricket bowlers: accurately tracking and managing their bowling loads during net practice. Without proper tracking, bowlers risk improper training regimens, leading to overtraining and injuries. The Yorker app offers a digital solution that automates session recordings, capturing key metrics like delivery count, types of deliveries, and intensity levels. Additionally, the app allows bowlers to create personalized training plans, track progress, and receive real-time alerts to avoid overexertion. By leveraging technology, this initiative not only helps reduce injury risks but also fosters a sense of community. Bowlers can share experiences, learn from experts, and engage in skill-enhancing challenges. Ultimately, the app aims to optimize performance while ensuring bowlers train safely and efficiently, revolutionizing the way athletes manage their training.
Scope & Requirement for AWS Custom Application For Yorker
Scope: The first phase of the Yorker mobile application focuses on developing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to establish a strong foundation. Specifically, this phase will deliver core functionalities to allow cricket bowlers to start tracking their training sessions and managing their profiles. The scope includes:
- User Authentication: Secure login and registration functionality for bowlers.
- Profile Management: Basic user profile setup, including personal details and preferences.
- Bowling Record Tracking: Automated entry for recording bowling sessions, including delivery count, types, and intensity.
- Basic Reporting: Simple reports summarizing bowling loads to help users monitor their progress.
Requirements:
- Mobile App Development: We will develop the front end using React Native to ensure cross-platform compatibility on iOS and Android.
- Backend Services: Built using .NET with RESTful APIs for data communication.
- Database: RDS Aurora PostgreSQL for structured data storage of user profiles and bowling records.
- CI/CD Pipeline: Set up Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes for efficient development and release.
- User Interface Design: Intuitive and user-friendly UI aligned with branding, focusing on easy data entry and report viewing.
Implementation
Technology and Architecture for AWS Custom Application For Yorker
Read more on the technology and Architecture we used for AWS Custom Application Development
Technology
- WAF, API Gateway, Lambda Functions, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager
Scalability
- The app is designed to run on serverless services, allowing automatic scaling based on usage.
Integrations
The application leverages RESTful APIs for smooth data transfer between the front end and back end, facilitating user authentication, session tracking, and profile management. Future integrations may include cloud-based analytics and third-party push notifications to enhance user engagement.
Cost Optimization
Peritos helped optimize costs for Yorker by designing an efficient AWS architecture using auto-scaling, right-sized instances, and serverless technologies. With tools like AWS Cost Explorer and Trusted Advisor, we continuously monitored and reduced spending. Automation through CI/CD pipelines and code optimization further enhanced performance while lowering operational costs.
Backup and Recovery
A robust backup strategy, using Amazon S3, prevents data loss, while automated recovery processes ensure quick restoration in case of failure.
Features of AWS Custom Application For Yorker
- Automated Bowling Session Tracking Capture and record each bowling session, including the number of deliveries, delivery types, and intensity levels, thus providing players with a detailed log of their training activities.
- Personalized Training Plans Create and customize training plans tailored to individual fitness levels and goals. Furthermore, Players and coaches can adjust these plans based on real-time performance data to optimize training regimens.
- Progress Monitoring & Alerts Track progress against predefined plans, with visual dashboards and alerts to notify users of deviations that may lead to overexertion or injuries.
- User Profile & Simple Reporting Maintain a personalized profile to store training history, generate basic reports on bowling performance, and gain insights to improve overall training effectiveness.
Challenges with AWS Custom Application For Yorker
- Accurate Data Capture & Tracking Ensuring the app reliably records detailed bowling metrics like delivery type, count, and intensity without manual errors poses a challenge, especially in a real-time sports environment.
- Scalability & Performance As user adoption grows, maintaining app performance and scalability will be critical, particularly during peak usage times. Designing a backend that can handle large volumes of data efficiently is essential.
- User Engagement & Retention Encouraging consistent use of the app among bowlers can be challenging. Building features that foster community interaction, personalized plans, and gamified challenges will be crucial to retaining users.
- Cross-Platform Compatibility Delivering a seamless user experience across both iOS and Android devices requires rigorous testing to address device-specific issues, screen resolutions, and performance variations.
Support
As part of the project implementation we provide 2 months of Ongoing extended support. Additionally, this also includes 20 hrs a month of development for minor bug fixes and a SLA to cover any system outages or high priority issues.
Next Phase
We are now looking at the next phase of the project which involves:
- Ongoing Support and adding new features every Quarter with minor bug fixes
- Social & Community Building Features
