Moving to the cloud: 5 different stories

"All departments refused the servers, but no one bought them on Avito - the boss said this is now a test environment."

The company of 20 developers lived with a tightly packed server rack. In the rack (by today's standards) is already an old crap that does not pull. Once it was new and beautiful, but time is ruthless. We connected to the cloud, dragged there first test environments, then production. And the desk came in handy for a couple of small office tasks and tests. We can clearly see how their old servers die in it: as they fail, they start new virtual machines in the cloud.


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Historically, to usretail came in, then Internet projects, then banks pulled themselves up. Now quite ordinary companies are actively moving in and are ready to take business-critical tasks to the cloud. Below are a few sample stories that may be useful to you, even if you are not planning any clouds yet. Although there’s already nowhere to go too much - this is ordinary, and not a new incomprehensible feature.

Social Network LOQUI BUSINESS


Lokvi (business.loqui.ru) - a growing corporate social network. A kind of full implementation of the corporate portal. They realized that corporations lacked a social network for employees to communicate, and thought that this blank spot was worth closing. It’s clear that the development environment was needed. Managers in Moscow, developers in Germany (mostly Russians). The project is originally Russian, the base language is Russian. Distribution - SaaS, provide customers with a ready-made service. That is, we have deployed one large multi-tenant installation. Why us Because the Russian segment of the social network must be in the Russian Federation. Cloudcame up with flexibility at the development stage and the ability to build a disaster-resistant infrastructure so as not to upset the owners of social accounts with falls. Now they are considering the possibility of backup or full migration to the CROC virtual data center of foreign servers, where the media files are located, to provide more reliable protection against failures and maximum availability.



We made automation of test environments: a complete replica of the main infrastructure, modules with automatic tests are launched on it, then from there - to the prod or to the basket. No equipment is idle, just at the time of testing, more power is bought - as much as you like. Previously, they would decide with a new piece of iron, it would still be necessary to do a testing queue to load it evenly, a separate admin.

Smartex


Web developers who have learned not only how to make cool sites, but also how to maintain them, have been using the advantages of Amazon throughout their entire conscious lives. But, of course, no matter what cool site you make, if it is in Frankfurt, then it will not open quickly in Moscow. And this is important for guys, they have a dynamic loading of content with a lot of sessions. The question of ping has become very important for them. The Amazon CDN in Moscow does not work. The guys came to us - they need an API, which in our case is 80 percent the same as the Amazon one. It is very simple for us for those who moved from Amazon. If they need a Russian CDN, they just contact the Russian CDN provider, it is very simple.

How do banks


Banks enter the clouds only on very peculiar occasions. Of course, these are the most conservative guys. Get up in the cloud, but not all services. Especially PCI DSS soars them. We are about to close the certification of the cloud platform according to this standard, and it will be much easier for all processing companies. But usually the banks do not allow security guards in anything, so it’s not a cloud, but a fenced area in the hall. The answer to almost any commercial offer on the cloud is “Let's get a cage,” that is, a garden in the room, not elastic consumption.

How does retail


Example: a company sells cosmetics in the price segment just below the well-known star network. Even 70 meters from the enemy’s store, they grow very well in profit, and knowing that with neighbors it falls into crisis. They became famous in their city as one of the most innovative companies. Business reformatted and conduct everything in a new way, wisely. If they need something, then they are looking for the best. With IT, it was difficult to expand - the opportunities lagged far behind desires, there was a small mess with support, a lot of things were done manually. The team on the spot is excellent, but there were not enough hands. With the wildest business growth in the crisis, they decided to spread to Moscow. We really wanted to get away from capital costs to operating costs (this is generally important for all retail), because financial flow and credit are cheaper.

They started to move. The level of planning they have is divine, we have never met anyone like this before. But reality, of course, let us down a bit: the provider, who was building a separate physical channel, could not hold on to the deadline.

E-commerce


One big retailer wanted to trade through the network, they have a base of 100 thousand items. Fearfully. But they coped with fear and began to make click-and-collect according to the European model, when you first order from a distance, and then pick up what was collected on the spot. At the same time, they rejected paper catalogs, which they all fairly decent. The level of hell in terms of how quickly everything got implemented is hardcore.

We have been working together for about 15 years, we provide all stores with infrastructure. Field engineers still drive with hard drives, cleaning kits for power supplies, and so on. But no further, the parent software support company is from England. Accordingly, their main employees are from India. With an appropriate approach. In particular, they work only on weekdays. As a result, we once every Saturday saved their DBMS, which got up tight (forgot to clean the logs, 350 GB were accumulated). Then it was still black Sunday, more and more ... Then they didn’t have all the services started, because they started with their hands. I remember I called their admin and we played the command line on the phone. Well, and also the Indian nuance of the approach - "backups are made only by a coward." Still these reptiles Indians speak "good" English. But as soon as something is wrong on their part, begins at the conference stake of clowning with the fact that they, like, have ceased to understand. But the only time that we had a piece of iron burned out, they jabbed us: “Well, were there dicky weekends?” In general, it got sick. I said: “Guys, we love you very much, but we will not go to the cottage anymore. Let's fasten normal monitoring so that no surprises. ” They scratched their heads - we made an offer, and they accepted it.

Plus, each industry has its own characteristics. We are focused on large projects and maximum customer satisfaction. But we are also friends with the developers. The CROC Cloud is an individual tailor. Our experience, competencies, resources allow us to land the big tasks of serious companies in the cloud, helping businesses focus on their root functions. We will drive IT.
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