Our work
Here is a sampling of our engagements across the four practices — the systems behind mail tracking, home security, market data, retail loyalty and web-scale catalogues. Most arrived as a problem someone else could not solve.
ADT Pulse
ADT Pulse Smart Home Security Scalable IoT Architecture Design and Operations Support
RhinoSource designed the Apache Kafka and DataStax Cassandra streaming architecture behind ADT Pulse, capable of capturing hundreds of terabytes of IoT sensor data from millions of homes, and executed a zero-downtime migration from Oracle using simultaneous dual-writes.
Akamai
Akamai Technologies Global Traffic Management Cassandra Risk Assessment
DataStax recommended RhinoSource to Akamai to assess the Apache Cassandra implementation behind Global Traffic Management, evaluating it against Akamai's Quality of Service goals and delivering recommendations across tuning, capacity, operations and security.
Applied Materials
Applied Materials Global IoT Analytics NoSQL Evaluation
Applied Materials hired RhinoSource to advise executive leadership on horizontally scalable NoSQL architectures for globally distributed IoT data collection, and to lead the evaluation and vendor selection across DataStax, Oracle and KX.
BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway Transportation Management DataStax Architecture Review
DataStax brought RhinoSource into BNSF Railway to assess whether its DataStax Enterprise infrastructure could meet system SLAs, reviewing architecture, data model and cluster operations and recommending improvements to performance, scalability and reliability.
CBOE
CBOE Real-Time DataStax Architecture Review and Troubleshooting
DataStax brought RhinoSource into CBOE to provide architecture, data modeling, operations and performance tuning guidance for the Apache Cassandra layer in its real-time market data platform, and to resolve the critical issues it was hitting in production.
California Department of Justice
California DoJ Stop Data Collection DataStax Architecture and Production Readiness Review
DataStax brought RhinoSource onsite to the California DOJ to review the DataStax Enterprise platform behind the RIPA Stop Data Collection system — architecture, security, data models and operations — resolving tombstone issues and delivering a role-based training plan ahead of release.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems Cloud Services DataStax Health Checkup and Performance Tuning
DataStax brought RhinoSource into Cisco to validate the health of the DataStax Enterprise Cassandra and Solr clusters behind its configuration management and subscription renewal Cloud services, resolve performance issues, and deliver a benchmarking methodology and zero-downtime upgrade procedure.
Comcast Xfinity Home
Comcast Xfinity Home Oracle Scalability and Replication Architecture
RhinoSource designed the Oracle Partitioning and GoldenGate active-active replication behind Comcast's Xfinity Home IoT platform, and traced a regional wave of false alarms to a bad batch of sensor batteries failing in freezing temperatures.
Custom Fleet
Custom Fleet Customer Portal DataStax Architecture Review and Development Workshops
DataStax deployed RhinoSource to Custom Fleet in Melbourne to accelerate development of its customer-facing Fleet Management Portal — delivering a multi-datacenter reference architecture that segregates Cassandra from Spark workloads, plus four half-day DataStax Enterprise deep-dive workshops.
Element Fleet
Element Fleet Vehicle Telematics DataStax Production Readiness Review
Ahead of go-live, DataStax brought RhinoSource into Element Fleet to health-check the DataStax Enterprise platform behind its real-time vehicle telematics analytics — optimizing batch loading with cross-datacenter consistency and delivering monitoring, alerting and retry best practices.
GE Digital
GE Digital Predix Asset Management DataStax Architecture Review
DataStax brought RhinoSource into GE Digital to improve performance and resolve production issues on the DataStax Cassandra and Solr Search clusters behind the Predix asset management platform, including benchmarking AWS storage alternatives and reducing tombstone issues.
Geometrics
Geometrics Enterprise Reporting and CRM/ERP Evaluation for High-Tech Manufacturing
Brought in by the CFO, RhinoSource architected an enterprise reporting strategy and drove a Master Data Management effort to give Geometrics timely visibility into its data, then guided the executive team through a modern Cloud CRM and ERP evaluation.
HERE Technologies
HERE Technologies Global Location Metadata DataStax Architecture Review
DataStax brought RhinoSource onsite to HERE for a deep dive into the DataStax Enterprise Cassandra deployment behind its global location data platform, delivering tuning to meet stringent multi-tenant availability and latency SLAs plus Docker guidelines for production.
Intuit
Intuit QuickBooks SE DataStax Upgrade and O/S Migration
DataStax brought RhinoSource into Intuit for a zero-downtime Red Hat Enterprise Linux migration and DataStax Enterprise upgrade across the Cassandra platform behind TurboTax and QuickBooks Self-Employed, alongside cluster data imbalance and node replacement work.
Kroger
Kroger Omni-Channel Retail Experience DataStax Enterprise Architecture Review
DataStax brought RhinoSource into Kroger to review its existing DataStax Enterprise clusters and assess a new one being readied for go-live, confirming performance, security, encryption and authentication were in line with best practices.
National Express
National Express Oracle Business Intelligence OBIEE Reporting and Database Monitoring
RhinoSource designed, developed and deployed an interactive profit and loss reporting solution on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, rolled out to 250 cost centers across North America, and implemented high-precision Oracle database and application monitoring.
Netpulse
Netpulse Fitness IoT AWS Cloud Platform/Data Architecture Optimization and BI Reporting
Brought in by the COO to fix system performance and stability problems frustrating customers, RhinoSource overhauled Netpulse's AWS infrastructure, rebuilt legacy MySQL on cached MariaDB clusters for an order-of-magnitude query gain, and migrated MongoDB to DataStax Cassandra and Spark.
Reltio
Reltio Multi-Tenant Master Data Management DataStax Architecture Review
DataStax brought RhinoSource into Reltio for a full review of its DataStax Enterprise deployment on AWS, redesigning a scalable multi-tenant data model with Spark-driven migration and producing the vNode study showing optimal num_tokens for large clusters falls in the 2-8 range.
Safeway / Albertsons
Safeway Albertsons Customer Loyalty DataStax Enterprise Architecture Review
DataStax brought RhinoSource into Safeway to review the DataStax Enterprise Cassandra and Solr clusters on Azure behind LOYALTY — serving over 6 Million users and 1 Billion coupon clips per year across 904 locations — and to plan its upgrade and multi-region replication strategy.
Sierra Circuits
Sierra Circuits PCB Manufacturing Cloud Transformation
RhinoSource architected and deployed a Snowflake data lake unifying Sierra Circuits' legacy SQL Server and disparate Cloud service data for enterprise BI, built the Cloud application architecture on AWS, and spearheaded data integration for a new Salesforce implementation.
Social Parent / Juggle Labs
Social Parent Juggle Labs Social Networking Mobile App Cassandra Architecture
RhinoSource architected, deployed and managed the AWS-based data infrastructure behind SocialParent and Juggle — DataStax Enterprise Cassandra clusters across development, QA and production — and supported Hive development for analysis.
T-Mobile
T-Mobile DataStax Distributed Data Systems Operational Support
DataStax brought RhinoSource into T-Mobile for operational support across its DataStax Enterprise Cassandra clusters — setting up SSL and Transparent Data Encryption, configuring automated OpsCenter backups to Amazon S3 for point-in-time recovery, and resolving replication and gossip issues.
U.S. Postal Service
USPS Informed Visibility DataStax Cassandra Support
DataStax brought RhinoSource in to analyze the large-scale DataStax Enterprise Cassandra and Solr clusters behind Informed Visibility Mail Tracking & Reporting, confirming they could carry significantly increased peak holiday season loads, and to plan zero-downtime upgrades and migration.
Verisk Analytics
Verisk Risk Management Data Services DataStax Production Readiness Review
DataStax brought RhinoSource into Verisk for a cluster health checkup ahead of go-live, delivering recommendations to segregate workloads, streamline compaction and increase query performance, and assisting with the creation of a new regional data center.
Verizon
Verizon Real-Time Customer Event Streams DataStax Production Readiness Review
DataStax brought RhinoSource into Verizon to confirm its DataStax deployment was ready for go-live — reviewing the multi-datacenter architecture and data model designs for operational readiness, and coaching the team on modeling, tuning and Spark dashboards.
Western Union
Western Union DataStax Enterprise Cloud Architecture Design
DataStax engaged RhinoSource to review Western Union's application data models and access paths, and to author a comprehensive set of DataStax Reference Architecture blueprints for AWS — from single-region Cassandra to multi-region Spark, Solr and DSE Graph deployments.
[24]7.ai
[24]7.ai Real-Time Customer Messaging DataStax Architecture Review
DataStax brought RhinoSource into [24]7.ai to review the DataStax Enterprise Cassandra platform behind its real-time messaging applications — architecture, data model, access patterns and operations — and to plan a zero-downtime upgrade.
eBay
eBay Product Catalog DataStax Cassandra Peak Period Support
DataStax brought RhinoSource into eBay for onsite Cassandra performance troubleshooting during the seasonal peak traffic period, tracing latency across 12 sharded DataStax Enterprise clusters to an imbalance in connections per cluster.