Google Cloud Platform Case Studies ADEO Services: Enhancing Cloud Compliance with Serverless, Real-Time Monitoring

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ADEO Services: Enhancing Cloud Compliance with Serverless, Real-Time Monitoring

Google Cloud Platform

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems
Applicable Industries	Consumer Goods Retail
Applicable Functions	Quality Assurance Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases	Inventory Management Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	ADEO Services, a technical support provider for ADEO, the world’s third-largest home improvement company, faced a significant challenge in maintaining cloud compliance and optimizing its infrastructure. The company was implementing a new data platform within the Global Tech and Data Platform for ADEO in 2018, using a site reliability engineering (SRE) approach with Google Cloud operations suite. However, for certain services, it required custom options and the ability to automatically monitor services in real time, detecting noncompliance errors as they occurred. The operations team needed a tool that could address inventory, accountability, and real-time monitoring. While ADEO was already using Cloud Asset Inventory, the team wanted to have up-to-date overviews across all its services and be able to cross-reference data errors. They also wanted real-time compliance monitoring to ensure systems were compliant at the point of development. Read More
About Customer	ADEO Services is a technical support provider for ADEO, the world’s third-largest home improvement company and the leading company in France. ADEO Services supports ADEO’s mission to inspire inhabitants by helping its business teams and product managers to reach their digital ambitions and challenges, from data warehousing to cloud infrastructure. ADEO Services teams work closely with multiple business units around the world, with a dedicated operations team that helps to deliver new cloud functionalities and technical support. The team supports and advises product managers and their teams on tasks such as network connectivity and building data pipelines, as well as monitoring and referencing. Read More
Solution	To address these challenges, ADEO Services developed a tool called Heimdall compliance in collaboration with Bruno Reboul, a senior PSO consultant at Google Cloud. Heimdall is a serverless tool built around microservices using Cloud Functions, leveraging Cloud Build, Cloud Source Repositories, Cloud Scheduler, and Cloud Asset Inventory. It offers access to compliance and violations statuses via BigQuery, displaying information via Looker Studio, and can also connect with Pub/Sub violations messages. Heimdall uses BigQuery to cross-reference the data from RAM with ADEO's accountability and inventory databases, enabling it to see when exactly services have been used, as well as whether or not they are compliant. Heimdall's real-time monitoring function delivers real-time compliance checks to developers via an API using App Engine. Because both RAM and Heimdall are serverless, the tools can be scaled down to zero when not in use. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems

Applicable Industries

Consumer Goods

Retail

Applicable Functions

Quality Assurance

Warehouse & Inventory Management

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

ADEO Services, a technical support provider for ADEO, the world’s third-largest home improvement company, faced a significant challenge in maintaining cloud compliance and optimizing its infrastructure. The company was implementing a new data platform within the Global Tech and Data Platform for ADEO in 2018, using a site reliability engineering (SRE) approach with Google Cloud operations suite. However, for certain services, it required custom options and the ability to automatically monitor services in real time, detecting noncompliance errors as they occurred. The operations team needed a tool that could address inventory, accountability, and real-time monitoring. While ADEO was already using Cloud Asset Inventory, the team wanted to have up-to-date overviews across all its services and be able to cross-reference data errors. They also wanted real-time compliance monitoring to ensure systems were compliant at the point of development.

About Customer

ADEO Services is a technical support provider for ADEO, the world’s third-largest home improvement company and the leading company in France. ADEO Services supports ADEO’s mission to inspire inhabitants by helping its business teams and product managers to reach their digital ambitions and challenges, from data warehousing to cloud infrastructure. ADEO Services teams work closely with multiple business units around the world, with a dedicated operations team that helps to deliver new cloud functionalities and technical support. The team supports and advises product managers and their teams on tasks such as network connectivity and building data pipelines, as well as monitoring and referencing.

Solution

To address these challenges, ADEO Services developed a tool called Heimdall compliance in collaboration with Bruno Reboul, a senior PSO consultant at Google Cloud. Heimdall is a serverless tool built around microservices using Cloud Functions, leveraging Cloud Build, Cloud Source Repositories, Cloud Scheduler, and Cloud Asset Inventory. It offers access to compliance and violations statuses via BigQuery, displaying information via Looker Studio, and can also connect with Pub/Sub violations messages. Heimdall uses BigQuery to cross-reference the data from RAM with ADEO's accountability and inventory databases, enabling it to see when exactly services have been used, as well as whether or not they are compliant. Heimdall's real-time monitoring function delivers real-time compliance checks to developers via an API using App Engine. Because both RAM and Heimdall are serverless, the tools can be scaled down to zero when not in use.

Impact #1	The implementation of Heimdall has significantly improved ADEO Services' cloud compliance and infrastructure optimization. The tool has enabled real-time monitoring at scale, providing immediate feedback to developers on whether their deployments are compliant or noncompliant. This has helped ADEO Services meet localized data regulations, such as the GDPR in Europe and the LGPD in Brazil. The tool has also allowed ADEO Services to focus on more robust security checks. Before Heimdall, errors in product platforms might only be caught during weekly audits. Now, the delay between a change in configuration and an error notification is around 10 seconds for 90% of events. ADEO Services is now planning to use RAM and Heimdall in new ways to optimize further, such as by removing deleted service accounts in real time and by making the most of committed-use discounts (CUDs) on Google Cloud to optimize costs.

Impact #1

The implementation of Heimdall has significantly improved ADEO Services' cloud compliance and infrastructure optimization. The tool has enabled real-time monitoring at scale, providing immediate feedback to developers on whether their deployments are compliant or noncompliant. This has helped ADEO Services meet localized data regulations, such as the GDPR in Europe and the LGPD in Brazil. The tool has also allowed ADEO Services to focus on more robust security checks. Before Heimdall, errors in product platforms might only be caught during weekly audits. Now, the delay between a change in configuration and an error notification is around 10 seconds for 90% of events. ADEO Services is now planning to use RAM and Heimdall in new ways to optimize further, such as by removing deleted service accounts in real time and by making the most of committed-use discounts (CUDs) on Google Cloud to optimize costs.

Benefit #1	Alerts developers of 90% of noncompliance within 10 seconds
Benefit #2	Handles up to 40,000 events per second on a Cloud Functions segment
Benefit #3	Significantly reduced noncompliances detected during the penetration test carried out before applications are put into production

Benefit #1

Alerts developers of 90% of noncompliance within 10 seconds

Benefit #2

Handles up to 40,000 events per second on a Cloud Functions segment

Benefit #3

Significantly reduced noncompliances detected during the penetration test carried out before applications are put into production

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ADEO Services: Enhancing Cloud Compliance with Serverless, Real-Time Monitoring

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