Project Overview
College Essay Whiz is an education services website designed to help students with college essays and applications.The site guides students and parents through a high-stakes academic process.
Delivered Outcomes & Impact
- Improved student confidence in applications
- Increased service inquiries
- Clear positioning as a trusted advisor
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The Business Challenge
- Building trust with students and parents
- Communicating academic expertise
- Standing out in a competitive market
Technical Decisions & Trade-offs
- Monolithic CMS Architecture: Deployed a monolithic CMS with page-caching configurations rather than a headless frontend stack to keep administration simple. The trade-off of slightly higher server processing latency was mitigated using CDN optimizations.
- Database Catalog Indexing: Used relational database-level indexing for simple catalog lookups. Accepted the trade-off of higher memory usage on database nodes to avoid the operational complexity of integrating an external search engine.
Engineering Deliverables
- Essay coaching and editing services
- Student-focused guidance content
- Inquiry and consultation booking
- Clear, supportive design tone
Operational Lessons & Insights
- Deadlock Mitigation: Discovered that database queries during concurrent updates must execute in sequential order using transaction blocks to prevent locking issues.
- Schema Drift Control: Established strict migrations scripts checks to verify database schema consistency across staging and production environments.
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