Joyent Case Studies EdgeMesh: A Case Study in Performance at Scale

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EdgeMesh: A Case Study in Performance at Scale

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Middleware & Microservices Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Cement Construction & Infrastructure
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases	Construction Management Time Sensitive Networking
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	EdgeMesh, a web acceleration company, aimed to disrupt the mature 8 billion dollar content delivery market with a small team. The challenge was to build and deploy a service that was superior in both performance and breadth. They needed to deliver an ultra-low latency, global, edge native solution with sub 1ms core service response times, and scale it to handle tens of millions of messages per second. This required a solution that could provide high performance, scalability, and deep introspection capabilities without requiring any infrastructure changes. Read More
About Customer	EdgeMesh is a premier web acceleration company that focuses on client-side, edge native optimizations to help customers deliver web experiences more securely, more reliably, and 2-10x faster. Unlike traditional platforms, EdgeMesh requires zero infrastructure changes and is implemented by adding a single line of code to any website. Operating on more than 8500 networks globally in over 138 countries, EdgeMesh changes the way the web is delivered around the globe, helping companies eliminate complicated and expensive global bandwidth fees by up to 90% while delivering faster, more reliable edge optimizations. Read More
Solution	EdgeMesh chose Joyent Triton cloud compute, Joyent Manta object storage, and Joyent ContainerPilot container orchestration for its performance and simplicity. The founders of EdgeMesh were familiar with Joyent’s performance optimization options and deep introspection capabilities from their previous experience with an Infrastructure as a Service provider built for Wall Street. EdgeMesh adopted a Docker based, Linux native deployment using a built-in emulation layer provided by Triton. Each Joyent Triton software defined datacenter is a single unified ‘Docker host’, allowing the EdgeMesh deployment system to be contained in a single Docker Compose file. Combined with Joyent Containerpilot, they created a self-managing, self-scaling global platform. EdgeMesh also developed the 'Clean Slate Protocol' for daily deployments of the entire system, ensuring consistent deployment methodology, decreasing the attack surface of the platform, and ensuring consistent self-scaling. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Middleware & Microservices

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Cement

Construction & Infrastructure

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Construction Management

Time Sensitive Networking

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

EdgeMesh, a web acceleration company, aimed to disrupt the mature 8 billion dollar content delivery market with a small team. The challenge was to build and deploy a service that was superior in both performance and breadth. They needed to deliver an ultra-low latency, global, edge native solution with sub 1ms core service response times, and scale it to handle tens of millions of messages per second. This required a solution that could provide high performance, scalability, and deep introspection capabilities without requiring any infrastructure changes.

About Customer

EdgeMesh is a premier web acceleration company that focuses on client-side, edge native optimizations to help customers deliver web experiences more securely, more reliably, and 2-10x faster. Unlike traditional platforms, EdgeMesh requires zero infrastructure changes and is implemented by adding a single line of code to any website. Operating on more than 8500 networks globally in over 138 countries, EdgeMesh changes the way the web is delivered around the globe, helping companies eliminate complicated and expensive global bandwidth fees by up to 90% while delivering faster, more reliable edge optimizations.

Solution

EdgeMesh chose Joyent Triton cloud compute, Joyent Manta object storage, and Joyent ContainerPilot container orchestration for its performance and simplicity. The founders of EdgeMesh were familiar with Joyent’s performance optimization options and deep introspection capabilities from their previous experience with an Infrastructure as a Service provider built for Wall Street. EdgeMesh adopted a Docker based, Linux native deployment using a built-in emulation layer provided by Triton. Each Joyent Triton software defined datacenter is a single unified ‘Docker host’, allowing the EdgeMesh deployment system to be contained in a single Docker Compose file. Combined with Joyent Containerpilot, they created a self-managing, self-scaling global platform. EdgeMesh also developed the 'Clean Slate Protocol' for daily deployments of the entire system, ensuring consistent deployment methodology, decreasing the attack surface of the platform, and ensuring consistent self-scaling.

Impact #1	The use of Joyent’s cloud technology has enabled EdgeMesh to achieve significant operational efficiency. The power and simplicity of the technology allows EdgeMesh to perform a full global deployment of their system every day across multiple datacenter locations without any operations interaction. This has resulted in a significant reduction in devops management, which accounted for less than 6% of their overall engineering effort in Q3 2018. Furthermore, despite a 17x increase in demand over the past two years, their cost basis has only increased by 40%, demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of the solution. The impact and value of these operational efficiencies are seen and appreciated by EdgeMesh customers daily.

Impact #1

The use of Joyent’s cloud technology has enabled EdgeMesh to achieve significant operational efficiency. The power and simplicity of the technology allows EdgeMesh to perform a full global deployment of their system every day across multiple datacenter locations without any operations interaction. This has resulted in a significant reduction in devops management, which accounted for less than 6% of their overall engineering effort in Q3 2018. Furthermore, despite a 17x increase in demand over the past two years, their cost basis has only increased by 40%, demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of the solution. The impact and value of these operational efficiencies are seen and appreciated by EdgeMesh customers daily.

Benefit #1	EdgeMesh services millions of client requests per second and provides real-time dashboards using a minimal cloud footprint of around 2 dozen docker instances and less than 40 vCPU’s per region.
Benefit #2	EdgeMesh performs a full global deployment every day across 4 datacenter locations with zero operations interaction.
Benefit #3	In Q3 2018, devops management accounted for less than 6% of their overall engineering effort.

Benefit #1

EdgeMesh services millions of client requests per second and provides real-time dashboards using a minimal cloud footprint of around 2 dozen docker instances and less than 40 vCPU’s per region.

Benefit #2

EdgeMesh performs a full global deployment every day across 4 datacenter locations with zero operations interaction.

Benefit #3

In Q3 2018, devops management accounted for less than 6% of their overall engineering effort.

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EdgeMesh: A Case Study in Performance at Scale

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