Návrh architektury pro high speed document generation (Vladimír Jirák - Quadient) | Kontent.ai DevMeetup #1 | 24. 11. 2022 | Olomouc, CZ

1. 24.11.2022
Making of
Generate
Services
Vladimír Jirák | HD/DM/PO/PA @ R&D CXM

2. BPA

3. Hradec Králové
▪ Main R&D office
▪ Founded in 1998
▪ 312 employees total
Quadient in CZ
Olomouc
▪ R&D subsidiary office
▪ Founded in 2004
▪ 69 employees total
Ostrava
▪ R&D subsidiary office
▪ Founded in 2016
▪ 21 employees total
Summary
▪ 402 employees

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Software for Printing business for 20 years
• from mainframes
• to full SaaS solutions
Quadient Business
Customers
▪ Enterprises – Banking, Insurance,
Utilities
▪ Print ServiceProviders
▪ Government

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Commitment to Quality
ISO 9001
SAMM - Secure Software Development
• Penetration testing – we conduct internal pentests focused on
requirement specific attack.
• SAST (Static Application Security Testing) – weekly scanning our
source code for malicious code.
• OWASP dependency check – weekly scanning 3rd party libraries for
publicly known vulnerabilities (CVE) collected by NIST (National
Institute of Standards and Technology in US)
Compliance Audits
Quality Assurance

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Evolve version lifecycle in MS Azure

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Content Author / Front Office

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Generate Ondemand / Generate Batch

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Evolve architecture requirements
Architecture principles
• Multi tenancy
• CPU, memory sharing by Kubernetes (AKS)
• (micro)services approach– pods
• More than 400 Evolve pods running in Europe
region
• Scaling
• automaticup/down pod start/stop according
the load
• Enterprisecloud → Tenant dataisolation
CHEAP + ISOLATED + SUPER PERFORMANT

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Generate service parameters
Response Time (anytime) <5s
TypicalRPS <30
Peaks <100
Max RPS 100
TypicalProcessing Time 300ms​
Exp. amount of communications <2M/month

11. Technology and Architecture

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Core Cloud architecture

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Used Quadient Products

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Initial Architecture

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Hornet Architecture
200MD+ Implementation

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(first) Hornet Architecture

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(second) Hornet Architecture

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Hornet Architecture

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(second) Hornet Architecture

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Generate Service – Rampup requirements
to expensive + to slow
90s

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(final) Hornet Architecture

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Generate Service – Benchmark Results

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Architecture remarks
Architecture principles remarks
• Multi tenancy
• Wherever possible
• (micro)services approach
• As small as possible, fast start
• Scaling
• Not alwaysHPA suits
• Enterprisecloud → Tenant dataisolation,but cost
will alwaysrule

24. Questions?
Thank You!