AI at Scale, Without the Downtime
How K&C engineered VAIX’s fault-tolerant cloud for 24/7 personalized experiences.
about VAIX
VAIX.ai is a fast-growing AI start-up revolutionizing the B2C landscape with deeply integrated personalization tools. Their mission: to transform how consumer brands engage customers through intelligent recommender systems and AI-driven classification products. Delivering real-time, personalized digital experiences requires an infrastructure that is always available, cost-efficient, secure—and ready to scale.
Artificial Intelligence/ Personalization
> 20 Employees
International
Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins & more
3 Team member
project
The Challenge
- High Availability: Needed a high-availability cloud infrastructure to support real-time AI services.
- Fault Tolerance Required 24/7 fault tolerance, even during maintenance, system updates, or failures.
- Scalability Needs Infrastructure had to be scalable to handle future growth and AI model complexity.
- Cost Control Cost efficiency was essential to maintain operational sustainability.
- Data Security Security had to meet industry best practices for data-driven services.
Solution
- Hybrid Cloud Designed and deployed a hybrid cloud infrastructure tailored to VAIX’s AI workload.
- Container Orchestration Implemented Kubernetes and Docker orchestration to maximize flexibility and uptime.
- Load Balancing Built a load-balanced environment using AWS Route53, NGINX, and Traefik.
- Monitoring & Logging Integrated monitoring and logging stacks (ELK, Graylog, Telegraf) for real-time performance and diagnostics.
- Scalable Storage Ensured modularity and future-proofing through Rancher, CEPH, and NFS for scalable storage.
Success Story
VAIX partnered with K&C to ensure their AI-driven services ran on an infrastructure as advanced as their products. Within a tight timeline, K&C delivered a robust hybrid cloud architecture, balancing flexibility with enterprise-grade reliability. The result? A high-performance environment with near-zero downtime, built to scale alongside VAIX’s product innovation. This collaboration empowered VAIX to focus on their core mission—transforming e-commerce through AI—while relying on K&C to keep the engine running flawlessly.
WHY K&C?
Deep Cloud Expertise
K&C’s R&D team had spent over two years developing and refining fault-tolerant infrastructure principles—proven and ready to implement.
Rapid, Reliable Execution
Delivered a secure, scalable cloud solution that minimized time-to-market and eliminated major availability risks.
Advanced Tooling, Seamlessly Integrated
From Rancher and Kubernetes to Ceph and the ELK stack, K&C leveraged a best-in-class tech stack to meet VAIX’s performance needs at a competitive cost.
About Krusche & Company
With over 25 years of experience, Krusche & Company (K&C) is a leading IT outsourcing provider, specializing in web and cloud technologies. Our team of 150+ IT experts operates from six offices worldwide, delivering top-notch services in UX/UI design, software development, cloud development, DevOps, quality assurance, agile project management, and cybersecurity.
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