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Introduction/The Client
VAIX.ai is an AI start-up creating deeply integrated and powerful AI solutions for B2C businesses, with the vision of transforming e-commerce through personalization.
VAIX offers highly customized recommender and classification products that help consumer brands to personalize every communication and offering to a customer.
K&C was tasked with auditing VAIX’s cloud infrastructure requirements and proposing, then setting up, a solution that met their specialised needs. That solution was a hybrid cloud infrastructure.
VAIX's cloud infrastructure requirements
- Scalable Infrastructure
- Cost efficient
- High security standards
- Fault-tolerant for maximum availability
The Challenge
Our mission was to build a solution able to scale with the needs of VAIX. It had to be cost-efficient without compromising security and fault-tolerance. 24/7 ‘up time’ was mandatory which meant it had to be maintained during any technical changes in the system, the data collecting process or a program crash.
Our Solution
We managed to build a high-availability infrastructure using operating principles rigorously tested and implemented over two years by our R&D team. By applying these principles to VAIX’s need we were able to significantly reduce our client’s time-to-market and enhance product reliability while keeping costs low.
Technology Stack
Integration
Jenkins
Gitlab
ci
Load Balancing
AWS Route 53
NGINX
Traefix
Orchestration
Docker
Kubernetes
Rancher
Storage
NFS
CEPH
Monitoring
elasticSearch
Kibana
Graylog
Telegraf
NodeExporter
cAdvisor
Word of mouth
“To create deeply integrated and powerful AI solutions which transform our customers’ businesses, we require a reliable and fault tolerant infrastructure. With our partners at K&C, we have achieved this challenging goal for our high-load services. We rely on K&C to leverage the benefits of Docker, Rancher, AWS Route53 and S3, ELK, Ceph, Traefik, and other advanced tools to design cost-effective solutions for our tasks.”
Andreas HartmannProduct & Operations, VAIX 
The Result
VAIX achieved a stable service with minimum downtime and efficient cost structure while having an infrastructure which scales with their business.