Executive Summary: Engineering the SKLOPS school management platform to handle simultaneous report card generation and online fee collection traffic spikes.
Educational ERP systems experience unique traffic patterns: long periods of steady administrative usage interrupted by sudden, massive concurrency spikes when report cards are published or fee submission deadlines arrive.
During peak exam result releases, thousands of parents log into the mobile app and portal simultaneously. Here is how we engineered SKLOPS for seamless responsiveness:
Asynchronous PDF Generation: Generating heavy PDF report cards with charts on-the-fly blocks web worker threads. We pre-generate report card PDFs using background queue workers and store them on Cloud Object Storage (S3 / DigitalOcean Spaces).
Payment Gateway Idempotency: Online fee submissions require strict idempotency keys to prevent double-charging parents during network drops.
Database Read Replicas: Admin reporting queries run against MySQL read replicas, keeping the primary master database 100% available for parent fee transactions.
Parents receive instant push notifications for attendance alerts, homework assignments, and fee receipts via Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) integrated directly into the backend workflow.
1. Scaling SKLOPS (https://sklops.com/)
During peak exam result releases, thousands of parents log into the mobile app and portal simultaneously. Here is how we engineered SKLOPS for seamless responsiveness:
2. Real-Time Parent Notifications
Parents receive instant push notifications for attendance alerts, homework assignments, and fee receipts via Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) integrated directly into the backend workflow.